Nurses join psychs demanding urgent mental health boost

Mental health nurses say their system has been pushed to the brink. Video by AAP

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00:00We refuse to stay silent while our mental health system crumbles around us.

00:04The crisis can no longer be ignored. The severe shortage of mental health services

00:11across New South Wales compounded by the recent resignations of psychiatrists

00:16has pushed an already broken system to the brink.

00:19The impact has been felt greatest here in Western Sydney LHD. It's led to the closure

00:26of a number of beds and the movement of patients into other areas that are yet to be deemed

00:33and passed as safe according to the association's review.