{"id":261792,"date":"2025-11-04T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261792\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:53:10","slug":"psychiatric-doctors-face-police-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261792\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatric doctors face police legal action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/psychiatric_clinic_hospital.jpg\" alt=\"Psychiatric doctors face police legal action\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/psychiatric_clinic_hospital-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A police union in northeast Attica has filed criminal complaints against psychiatrists at public mental health facilities, accusing them of continuous dereliction of duty and endangering patients.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint could result in preliminary examinations for many psychiatrists who have worked emergency shifts since February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute stems from a February 2024 directive requiring psychiatric facilities to immediately accept patients brought by police and release officers without delay. Doctors protested they couldn\u2019t comply due to workload and bed shortages.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Ministry and police subsequently warned psychiatrists they face criminal charges if they require additional examinations or inform officers that no beds are available.<\/p>\n<p>Medical associations condemned the lawsuit as \u201cunprecedented\u201d and accused authorities of \u201ccriminalizing psychiatric practice\u201d while ignoring critical bed shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police union in northeast Attica has filed criminal complaints against psychiatrists at public mental health facilities, accusing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,48,137,10490,7812,514,515,1158,6213],"class_list":{"0":"post-261792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-in-depth","13":"tag-justice","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-mentalhealth","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-society"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}