28 Mar 2022

Wellington youth mental health service near collapse, staff say

From Morning Report, 7:22 am on 28 March 2022

Wellington clinicians say the Capital's youth mental health service is desperately short staffed and has all but collapsed.

RNZ reported last year about patients facing long wait times as demand ramped up amid a lack of clinicians.

Since then it appears the situation in Wellington's child and adolescent mental health service has "deteriorated significantly" with an exodus of staff.

RNZ reporter Hamish Cardwell spoke with Corin Dann.