西澳州一个家庭因无法获得足够的心理健康支持，被迫离开本州迁往维多利亚州。母亲西蒙·梅耶尔的16岁女儿患有自闭症、强迫症和抑郁症，需要复杂护理，但珀斯和南部地区的本地服务无法满足需求1。梅耶尔一家在2025年11月曾在两家珀斯医院的急诊科度过了60小时1。最终，这个家庭从玛格丽特河迁往阿尔伯里-沃东加，距离超过270公里1。
面对服务缺陷的批评，西澳政府随后宣布了改进措施1。班伯里地区医院将增加6张72小时心理健康床位，并建立新的青少年危机应对团队，该团队每周五天在办公时间提供服务1。值得注意的是，班伯里地区医院在2025年8月曾从23张心理健康床位减少到11张1。卫生部长梅瑞迪思·哈马特表示，这些措施将使"人们不用在急诊科等待就能得到专业多学科团队的治疗"1。
然而，政府的改革步伐仍遭批评。影子卫生部长利比·梅塔姆指责改进心理健康服务的进展"不可接受地缓慢"，尽管政府在2021年曾做出改革承诺1。
A Western Australian family has relocated to Victoria after struggling to access adequate mental health support for their teenage daughter.1 Simon Mayer's 16-year-old child, who requires complex care due to autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression, could not be adequately served by local services in Perth and the South West region, prompting the family to move from Margaret River to Albury-Wodonga, approximately 270 kilometers away.1
The family spent 60 hours across emergency departments at two Perth hospitals in November 2025 seeking appropriate care.1 In response to cases like this, the Western Australian government announced service improvements including the addition of six 72-hour mental health beds at Bunbury Regional Hospital and the establishment of a new youth crisis response team operating five days a week during business hours.1 Health Minister Meredith Hammat stated the initiatives would allow people "to get treatment from a specialist multidisciplinary team without having to wait in an emergency department."1
However, the expansion comes after Bunbury Regional Hospital reduced its mental health bed capacity from 23 to 11 beds in August 2025.1 Opposition health spokesperson Libby Mettam criticized the government's progress in improving mental health services as "unacceptably slow," despite commitments made through 2021 reforms.1
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