Southern District Health Board is under fire for failing to boost mental health services in Queenstown. He was detained for seven hours in October 2017 while cops waited for a mental health team from Invercargill. Queenstown cops attended 158 mental health and attempted suicide call-outs between May 2018 and May this year. A survey commissioned by the council late last year revealed 62 per cent of respondents felt more mental health services were needed. A quarter of respondents had accessed, or tried to access, mental health services in the prior 12 months.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 03, 2019 20:48 UTC