The current NHPPD system of staffing levels is NOT WORKING. This system is profit over people, it is manipulated, it DOES NOT provide appropriate staffing levels, it puts patient safety AT RISK, it puts nurses safety AT RISK & HAS NOT addressed major staffing issues on mental health units.

Mental Health units are IN CRISIS! Mental Health Consumers, especially when they are at their most vulnerable, DESERVE BETTER!

There IS NOT adequate resourcing of public hospital mental health wards. Workloads are NOT reasonable & they are NOT sustainable under the current system. Wards are UNSAFE!

WHAT WILL IT TAKE for mental health consumers & those that care for them to stop being neglected? WHAT WILL IT TAKE for mental health care to be acknowledged & prioritised? WHAT WILL IT TAKE for the state government to adequately resource public hospital mental health units?

We need mandated nurse to patient ratios, on ALL WARDS, ACROSS THE STATE to provide safe patient care.

Nurse to patient ratios will improve patient care. Ratios will help nurses working in an already high demand & high stress job. Ratios will ensure SAFE wards, SAFE workplaces, and re-assure families that their loved ones are getting the best possible care.

Nurse to patient ratios SAVE LIVES!