Psych. services inquiry
The Government has established a mental health consortium to consider the establishment of community psychiatric services as recommended in the Mason report. The Ministers of Health and Social Welfare, Mr Cargill and Dr Cullen, announced the consortium yesterday and said it would reoort back to the
Government by June next year. Representatives of the Health and Social Welfare departments as well as the Housing Corporation, the Hospital Boards’ Association and community services, the Schizophrenia Fellowship and the Wellington Community Mental Health Services Group will make up the consortium.
The consortium was established because there was no mechanism for the development of a comprehensive mental health system. It will address responsibility, funding and accountability for community psychiatric services. It was intended as a short-term consultative body, the Ministers said.
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