{"id":53166,"date":"2025-09-30T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53166\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:09:10","slug":"the-inaction-was-harrowing-to-witness-psychiatrist-dr-pramudie-gunaratne-on-battling-the-nsw-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53166\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The inaction was harrowing to witness\u2019: Psychiatrist Dr Pramudie Gunaratne on battling the NSW Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A letter by 15 clinical directors of NSW public mental health services, sent in late 2023, did not completely surprise Dr Pramudie Gunaratne.<\/p>\n<p>The neuropsychiatrist knew of the problems they were warning about. Services were rapidly losing staff, struggling to recruit and under immense pressure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What frightened her was the thought that things could get worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that these very senior psychiatrists who ran services took this step and pleaded with us to do something raised serious alarm bells,\u201d she tells AusDoc.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A letter by 15 clinical directors of NSW public mental health services, sent in late 2023, did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411,43,10149,1703,14137],"class_list":{"0":"post-53166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nsw","15":"tag-psychiatry","16":"tag-workforce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}