‘Crisis? It’s going to be catastrophic’: We speak to one of the NSW hospital psychiatrists left behind
The mass resignation of NSW psychiatrists is due to take place on Tuesday.
Two hundred public psychiatrists will resign on Tuesday unless the NSW Government executes a massive turnaround on pay and conditions.
Adjunct Professor Chris Ryan is one of just 60 who will be left behind.
The leading forensic psychiatrist says “everybody knows” what is going to happen next: the public mental healthcare system will collapse, the impact reverberating into EDs which will struggle to pick up the pieces.
While he feels guilty for not joining his colleagues in resigning from a system where one in three psychiatric positions are already vacant, he believes somebody has to stay.
