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'Focused attention' needed to reach targets of million dollar mental health programme

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Thu, 3 Apr 2025, 8:12am
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'Focused attention' needed to reach targets of million dollar mental health programme

Author
九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 3 Apr 2025, 8:12am

A $664 million mental health programme seems to have challenges to address to help it reach its targets. 

The Access and Choice Programme received the five-year funding in Labour's 2019 'Wellbeing' Budget.  

It's aiming to support 325 thousand people per year, but during 2023-24 saw just over 207 thousand.  

Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission chief executive Karen Orsborn told Mike Hosking awareness is an issue. 

She says people don't always know where to go, and it's also about how GPs make it easier for patients to seek the support. 

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