House debates Questions without Notice
Mental Health
Andrew Wilkie Denison, Independent
3:08 pm
My question is to the Prime Minister. The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission recommends building early psychosis prevention and intervention centres, or EPPICs—which should not be confused with the quite separate Headspace program. The government is contributing $25 million towards EPPIC, but this is only enough to build what Patrick McGorry describes as ‘a heavily diluted cardboard cut-out service lacking many of the core features of EPPIC’. Considering that only a third of mental health cases are treated in Australia currently and that most new cases appear before age 25, will you now commit to better fund the EPPIC program?
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