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Alex Mitchell

Nurses join psychs demanding urgent mental health boost

There are fears patients will die unless mental health services improve at public hospitals. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

Nurses are throwing their weight behind psychiatrists' push for a pay rise, fearing patients will die unless public hospital mental health services are seriously improved.

The mass resignation of NSW public-sector psychiatrists - part of a cohort of more than 200 who previously signalled plans to quit - has exacerbated already stretched services in the nation's largest health system.

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