From accidental doctor to disability health champion - Prof Helen Beange is an inspiring pioneering woman in medicine! Medical Women's Society of NSW

Happy #MardiGras 🌈🌈🌈 Can’t wait to see #prideinmedicine out tonight! Love how this event brings together so many sectors of our community to celebrate #love, #inclusion and #diversity! #Throwback to all the glitter and fun from the float last year!!

Today we celebrate #IWD2024 and all #WomenInMedicine by re-sharing Helen Beange’s story – from medical school, to travelling the world as a naval officer’s wife and having 6 children, to becoming Australia’s 1st professor of Intellectual Disability Health.

Psychotropic medicines are both under and over utilised for people with cognitive disability - under utilised for treating established pathology and over utilised for ‘treating behaviours’ - here’s a great resource to learn more! #medtwitter #psychtwitter RANZCP

JE Dr Pramudie Gunaratne Australian Doctor Ryan Park MP Chris Minns Succinct description of neglect. I get budget problems, but the State’s MH is the poorest relation in Health, not gonna be fixed by going backwards or fiddling at the edges; Fully Funding MH is the only option for reform, using new funding streams. QLD & Vic did it. Lawrence Muskitta

I cannot get my head around the Budget finding only $111 million a year for additional mental health services while we’re still happy to give the fossil fuel industries $14.5 billion a year in subsidies.

Honoured to take on this role. Our mental health system is at a tipping point and we need urgent action now. Thank you Angelo Virgona for your inspiring advocacy and congratulations on the new role! Incoming dream team has its work cut out Joe McDonald Dr Ashna Basu, MD MHM GAICD James Bae

“If a person with intellectual disability received a combination of both mental health and disability support, they were 52 percent less likely to end up back in prison.” – Dr Julian Trofimovs Read about Julian's award-winning research on people with intellectual disability and

Our public mental health system is crumbling - after decades of neglect and underinvestment, clinicians are at breaking point and choosing to leave the system - without urgent action we cannot turn this tide. #auspol Rose Jackson Ryan Park MP RANZCP links.streem.com.au/nt-news-202409…

As Queensland ramps up efforts to attract #mentalhealthworkers from across the country, #psychiatrists in NSW warn that this approach may worsen workforce shortages in other states and territories. Read the #RANZCPmedia release: ow.ly/UiBv50TvRM5

Thank you Women's Agenda - the decades of de-prioritisation and underinvestment needs to end - #mentalhealth care needs to be on everyone’s agenda! RANZCP RACGP womensagenda.com.au/life/womens-he…

The #RANZCPNSW Branch has responded to an analysis by UNSW Sydney published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, which found that youth ED visits for suicidal thoughts or behaviours increased by 1.3% for every 1°C rise in daily mean temperatures in NSW. (1/3)

RANZCP NSW Branch, Chair Dr Dr Pramudie Gunaratne Gunaratne, said young Australians are bearing the brunt of rising temperatures & as a result, #psychiatrists are increasingly concerned about the risk to young people’s #mentalhealth. (2/3)