Peter Andren (Calare, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, at the start of Mental Health Week, can you answer concerns from the New South Wales Central West Division of General Practice that its psychology service has not been refunded and that, despite very welcome promises of Medicare mental health cover, there are no private child and family psychiatrists in the central west and only four full-time community health psychologists? Minister, how do you respond to concerns that the new COAG national mental health initiative cannot significantly assist rural Australia unless there are coordinated psychiatry, clinical psychology and GP services in every region across Australia?

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