Reinstate allied health professions to Better Access to Mental Health Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/reinstate-allied-health-professions-to-better-access-to-mental-health.html Online petition signatures en-us Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:34 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mr Joshua Edwards [Signature #545] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21567887?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Aug 2017 01:51:22 UTC 21567887 Anonymous [Signature #544] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8867602?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:14:57 UTC 8867602 Mr Aaron Bingham [Signature #543] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8347971?utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:04:06 UTC 8347971 Ms Nicole Kinnaird [Signature #542] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8342979?utm_medium=rss Keep well trained allied health professionals available for these clients!

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:15:46 UTC 8342979 Ms Anonymous [Signature #541] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8175470?utm_medium=rss Essential services . We currently see so many clients who cannot access services especially in rural ares. Do not leave us with huge services gaps.

]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:02:17 UTC 8175470 Ms Anne Curry [Signature #540] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8174988?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:29:26 UTC 8174988 Mr Shane Ocean [Signature #539] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8169609?utm_medium=rss Mental Health services are already over stretched in our community. Any further cuts to funding and programs is unacceptable

]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:24:36 UTC 8169609 Anonymous [Signature #538] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8169413?utm_medium=rss The service provision that Social Workers and Occupational Therapists do to support individuals with Mental Health, to overcome the difficulties of debilitating conditions, in a practical and efficient way is priceless to individuals, families and communities. The prevention of suicide, homelesness, family breakdowns, job loss, addiction, and many other consequences of withdrawing practical support by qualified professionals should be a priority.

]]> Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:51:26 UTC 8169413 Mrs Roslynne Britton [Signature #537] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8169312?utm_medium=rss This is truly a retrograde step

]]> Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:04:26 UTC 8169312 Miss Bronwyne Chapman [Signature #536] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8169200?utm_medium=rss There is a severe shortage of on the ground services to help people with mental illness. Social workers etc help prevent these people remaining undiagnosed and falling through the cracks.

]]> Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:21:07 UTC 8169200 Mrs Fran Pearce [Signature #535] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8169182?utm_medium=rss Access to services is essential. Please ADD to services available to all not DETRACT.

]]> Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:15:28 UTC 8169182 Mrs Jacquelyn Toivonen [Signature #534] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8134539?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:13:21 UTC 8134539 Ms Lynnette Scott [Signature #533] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8120067?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:21:19 UTC 8120067 Mrs Susan Curran [Signature #532] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8025917?utm_medium=rss Better health and access will only be ensured by making sure that such important services remain available to everyone. By ending the rebate, we are not only reducing the amount of services available, the government is also undervaluing the true worth of social workers and OT's.

]]> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:24:30 UTC 8025917 Mrs Joanne Soper [Signature #531] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8018347?utm_medium=rss Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:26:11 UTC 8018347 Ms Pamela Verrender [Signature #530] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7978475?utm_medium=rss Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:08:58 UTC 7978475 Ms Rebecca Harris [Signature #529] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7954480?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:12:34 UTC 7954480 mr peter popko [Signature #528] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7926740?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:06:21 UTC 7926740 Michelle Bihary [Signature #527] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7917939?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:31:37 UTC 7917939 Ms Jemma Rossel [Signature #526] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7915038?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:34:24 UTC 7915038 Ms K Fallon [Signature #525] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7910273?utm_medium=rss The planned 'transfer' of Social Workers & OTs from one program to another, is discriminatory targetting of two professions and client choice and access to a range of professionals.
The program Better Access is very different to the ATAPs program, and has very different criteria to be accepted into it as a client.

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:49:36 UTC 7910273 Ms Elizabeth McRae [Signature #524] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7898286?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:27:41 UTC 7898286 Mrs Louise Bloom [Signature #523] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7889802?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 05:18:18 UTC 7889802 Ms Kris Jessop [Signature #522] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7880359?utm_medium=rss Mon, 7 Jun 2010 04:59:44 UTC 7880359 Mre Sarah Chandler [Signature #521] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7879208?utm_medium=rss Mon, 7 Jun 2010 01:46:11 UTC 7879208 Mrs karen Taylor [Signature #520] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7878684?utm_medium=rss Sun, 6 Jun 2010 11:25:28 UTC 7878684 Ms Devorah Wynn [Signature #519] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7878348?utm_medium=rss Sun, 6 Jun 2010 10:15:40 UTC 7878348 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #518] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7869149?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Jun 2010 06:46:17 UTC 7869149 Mrs Julianne Wignall [Signature #517] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7864581?utm_medium=rss I live in a small country community where the mental services have already been downgraded. The result was devastating for these patients who turned to GP's who don't have the necessary time as they are already struggling with their workload. This impacted on acutely ill patients who wait longer for appointments. Why not put some of the enormous advertising budget to better use by improving not downgrading Mental Health and other essential Health Services!

]]> Sat, 5 Jun 2010 01:50:27 UTC 7864581 Ms Juliet Beatty [Signature #516] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7863783?utm_medium=rss Obviously those involved in thinking up this amendment didn't suffer or have a family member who suffers from a mental illness. I suffer from bi-polar disorder, and would probably be shut up in a mental institution by now if it weren't for the support of these valuble professionals. Shame on you.

]]> Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:18:37 UTC 7863783 Mr Anonymous [Signature #515] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7863461?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:07:59 UTC 7863461 Janne Burchell [Signature #514] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7857138?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:11:42 UTC 7857138 Ms Anonymous [Signature #513] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7856957?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Jun 2010 04:43:25 UTC 7856957 mrs Anonymous [Signature #512] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7855078?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 11:27:43 UTC 7855078 Mrs Megan Lodge [Signature #511] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7854757?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:59:26 UTC 7854757 Mr Charles Coates [Signature #510] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7854611?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:47:52 UTC 7854611 Ms Frances Taylor-Marshall [Signature #509] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7852266?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:42:24 UTC 7852266 Fiona Armistead [Signature #508] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7851867?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 06:33:14 UTC 7851867 Emma Dumbrell [Signature #507] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7851741?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 06:12:49 UTC 7851741 Ms Peta Walker [Signature #506] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7851410?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:25:48 UTC 7851410 mrs melanie vincent [Signature #505] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7850545?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 03:34:38 UTC 7850545 Ms Jennifer Harland [Signature #504] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7846091?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:00:51 UTC 7846091 ms jane rafe [Signature #503] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7846084?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:00:28 UTC 7846084 MR Ralph De Bon [Signature #502] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7845661?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 06:11:01 UTC 7845661 MS BHakti De Bon [Signature #501] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7845647?utm_medium=rss One session with a Mental Health Social Worker costs the Government $70,65; therefore a maximum of 12 sessions would cost the budget 847,80. An admission cost appr. $2500,- in the first 24 hours! to take the rebate away wouldn't prevent any financial crisis but would rather create more mental health difficulties.

]]> Thu, 3 Jun 2010 06:09:46 UTC 7845647 Miss Annabelle Tunley [Signature #500] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7845256?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:19:24 UTC 7845256 Mrs Sarah Toohey [Signature #499] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7816471?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Jun 2010 01:41:26 UTC 7816471 Ms Margaret Moloney [Signature #498] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7815199?utm_medium=rss Allied Health Practitioners have been a welcome addition, over the past few years, to the Government Health policy. They have provided a service which support the needs of those experiencing mental health issues.

]]> Mon, 31 May 2010 10:20:36 UTC 7815199 Mrs Heather MacLeod [Signature #497] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7813837?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 May 2010 07:11:28 UTC 7813837 Dennis Anson [Signature #496] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7804514?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 May 2010 06:25:17 UTC 7804514 Ms Lyndell Madden [Signature #495] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7804007?utm_medium=rss We, the undersigned, call on Hon Nicola Roxon (Minister for Health and Aging) to reinstate social workers and occupational therapists to practice under the Better Access to Mental Health Scheme.

]]> Mon, 31 May 2010 05:10:31 UTC 7804007 Dr Penny Weir [Signature #494] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7803074?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 May 2010 03:14:43 UTC 7803074 Mrs Caron Genende [Signature #493] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7802530?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 May 2010 02:10:40 UTC 7802530 Ms Anonymous [Signature #492] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7802418?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 May 2010 01:48:19 UTC 7802418 Dave Wells [Signature #491] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7801758?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 May 2010 11:11:53 UTC 7801758 Ms Maree Veal [Signature #490] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7801282?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 May 2010 09:24:06 UTC 7801282 Christine Levy [Signature #489] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7801223?utm_medium=rss There is not enough funding in the sector now, I do not see the benefit to anyone to remove or cut funding.

]]> Sun, 30 May 2010 09:06:44 UTC 7801223 Ms Deli Baker [Signature #488] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7800919?utm_medium=rss The decision re remove mental health social workers and OT's from the Better Access to Mental health will vastly reduce access to mental health services esp. people living in remote or rural area's where there are no psychologists - people such as our Indigenous Australians

]]> Sun, 30 May 2010 07:52:02 UTC 7800919 Ms Carmel Fitzgerald [Signature #487] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7800866?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 May 2010 07:37:12 UTC 7800866 Ms Helen Lynes [Signature #486] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7794480?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 May 2010 05:07:43 UTC 7794480 Ms SARAH ATKINSON [Signature #485] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7793989?utm_medium=rss The plan to take rights off social workers and occupational therapists to practice under the Better Access to Mental Health Scheme is ill condisdered and has significant ramifications for the most marginalised people in the community. We should be providing our social workers and OT's more funding to engage with people about their mental health - not less

]]> Sun, 30 May 2010 02:50:51 UTC 7793989 mr thern rossel [Signature #484] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7793423?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 May 2010 11:13:28 UTC 7793423 Mrs Marina Stocks [Signature #483] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7793202?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 May 2010 09:46:51 UTC 7793202 Ms Susan Morwood [Signature #482] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7789938?utm_medium=rss Accredited Mental Health provide effective, grounded and connected therapeutic services. Social Workers know people exist in community contexts, as a group of professionals we have skills to support people live active, healthy lives within their immediate and local networks.

]]> Sat, 29 May 2010 08:43:22 UTC 7789938 Ms Lena Galapi [Signature #481] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7789903?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 May 2010 08:34:50 UTC 7789903 Miss Margaret Wilson [Signature #480] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7787990?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 May 2010 11:34:22 UTC 7787990 mrs Sandra Adaway [Signature #479] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7787307?utm_medium=rss Many people living in rural areas are disadvantaged and will seek assistance from Social Workers due to the lack of Psychologists, or the unavaliability of their service. Social workers have the capacity to give to clients the same quality of services of those in the Psychology profession, why are we as workers being disadvantaged, and why are our clients also disadvantaged??

]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 07:22:10 UTC 7787307 Ms Alana Dillon [Signature #478] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7787081?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 May 2010 06:20:11 UTC 7787081 Miss Alice Leser [Signature #477] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7782464?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 May 2010 07:13:52 UTC 7782464 miss christine brooks [Signature #476] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7782227?utm_medium=rss social workers were reistered to medicare in order to make it easier for mental health patients to get assistance and relieve the pressure on psychologists.
If you can claim for counsellors (who have 6-12 months training) it stands to reason that SW with 4-5 years training should remain eligable

]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 06:41:21 UTC 7782227 Miss Lisa Laba Sarkis [Signature #475] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7780866?utm_medium=rss Please support social workers as we offer a wonderful service to the community. We provide a much needed service. Please help us support individuals in need!

]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 03:59:17 UTC 7780866 Ms Anonymous [Signature #474] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7779542?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 May 2010 12:54:08 UTC 7779542 Miss Lisa Yorston [Signature #473] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7779378?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 May 2010 12:03:01 UTC 7779378 Ms Khadine Aharon [Signature #472] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7779330?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:07 UTC 7779330 MS Catherine Robinson [Signature #471] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7779185?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 11:08:05 UTC 7779185 Mrs Ruth Thirtle [Signature #470] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7779149?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 10:57:06 UTC 7779149 Miss Aditi Kogekar [Signature #469] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7778958?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 10:10:07 UTC 7778958 Ms Anonymous [Signature #468] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7778938?utm_medium=rss How does restricting access to the full suite of mental health professionals help provide better access to professional care for people with a mental health condition?

]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 10:07:23 UTC 7778938 Ms Sue Ellen Radford [Signature #467] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7778579?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 08:50:32 UTC 7778579 Mr Anonymous [Signature #466] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7778558?utm_medium=rss If funding is to be cut for Social Workers and OTs, why is it not being cut to 4year training Psychologists?

]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 08:46:39 UTC 7778558 Ms Hannah Bloom [Signature #465] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7778062?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 07:21:10 UTC 7778062 Ms Anonymous [Signature #464] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7778058?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 07:20:10 UTC 7778058 Ms Joanna Kopras [Signature #463] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7777791?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 06:31:44 UTC 7777791 Miss Anonymous [Signature #462] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7777787?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 06:31:08 UTC 7777787 Ms Helen Conway [Signature #461] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7777786?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 06:31:07 UTC 7777786 Mrs Ann Carroll [Signature #460] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7777725?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 06:18:52 UTC 7777725 Ms Lisa POLA [Signature #459] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7777518?utm_medium=rss While Clinical Psychologists provide an excellent service to individuals struggling with mental health issues; social workers and occupatiional therapists value add when providing clinical treatment that includes a contextual and systems approach. Mental Health is best treated using a broadbrush clinical / contextual approach.

]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 05:44:55 UTC 7777518 Miss Bonnie Woolford [Signature #458] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7776698?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 03:56:29 UTC 7776698 DR Christine Brett Vickers [Signature #457] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7776548?utm_medium=rss since the rebates were introduced my caseload has expanded to include young families and couples in the early stages of their development, where incomes are low and who are facing serious problems which, if left unattended to, would lead to unemployment, family breakdown or worse. The rebate has been well used by those who need it

]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 03:37:23 UTC 7776548 Mr Richard Smith [Signature #456] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7769903?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 05:19:51 UTC 7769903 Dr Ruth Ingrid Sturmey [Signature #455] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7767861?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 May 2010 02:32:31 UTC 7767861 Mrs Simone Stowe [Signature #454] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7766582?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 11:14:07 UTC 7766582 Mrs Cheryl Gration [Signature #453] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7766341?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 10:26:26 UTC 7766341 Ms Joanne Clark [Signature #452] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7765570?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 08:12:28 UTC 7765570 Caroline Benac [Signature #451] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7765224?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 07:17:35 UTC 7765224 Ms Michelle Wesley [Signature #450] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7765068?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 06:58:30 UTC 7765068 Dr Kalpana Goel [Signature #449] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7765061?utm_medium=rss I strongly urge Hon minister of Health and aging to reinstate OT/ social workers to practice for better access to mental health services. This is very vital for providing equitable services to clients residing in rural and remote regions.

]]> Wed, 26 May 2010 06:57:38 UTC 7765061 Anonymous [Signature #448] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7764805?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 06:26:50 UTC 7764805 Ms Toni Herewini [Signature #447] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7764725?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 06:18:07 UTC 7764725 Ms Sandra Hamlet [Signature #446] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7764709?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 May 2010 06:16:49 UTC 7764709