Patients traumatised in NSW mental health units, damning report reveals

By Kate Aubusson
Updated January 11 2018 - 9:53am, first published December 18 2017 - 3:09pm
Minister for Health Brad Hazzard talks to media during the launch of the report, What NSW Children Eat and Drink, on August 2, 2017 in Sydney, Australia.  (Photo by Daniel Munoz/Fairfax Media)
Minister for Health Brad Hazzard talks to media during the launch of the report, What NSW Children Eat and Drink, on August 2, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Munoz/Fairfax Media)
Mulgoa MP Tanya Davies happy that the minister will be making an announcement about its plan to protect the Parklands and its amenities. Picture: Simon Bennett
Mulgoa MP Tanya Davies happy that the minister will be making an announcement about its plan to protect the Parklands and its amenities. Picture: Simon Bennett

???A damning inquiry has exposed the "traumatising" use of seclusion and restraint in NSW mental health units and emergency department 'safe rooms', describing entrenched discrimination, stigma and prison-like punishment many patients are subject to.

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