Workforce issues are resulting in fewer people accessing specialist mental health services.  

A Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report shows more people are receiving community-based care.  

But access to specialist services dropped from 3.8% of people in 2018 and 19 to 3.4% in 2022 and 23. 

Board chair Hayden Wano told Mike Hosking that workforce impacts are across the whole sector.  

He says community providers and GPs are finding there's a higher threshold for their patients to be referred to specialist services. 

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