Federal Budget begins mental health reform, without providing adequate funds to complete it
The 2024-25 Federal Budget took important first steps towards long-term mental health reform, despite providing the smallest investment into mental health since 2018: only $361 million in new mental health funding, over four years.
“Australia’s current mental health care system is broken and in need of urgent reform. This budget contains some good first steps to achieve long-term reform. The establishment of a new low-intensity treatment service and the commitment to transition the failed Head to Health Centres into a more integrated, clinically-relevant Medicare Mental Health Centres are important steps,” says Prof Samuel Harvey, Executive Director at the Black Dog Institute.
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