The New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission has handed down a decision finding that the state’s psychiatrists should receive a 20% pay increase.

The case comes after 200 psychiatrists threatened to resign in January, saying it was not about the money but being unable to continue working in a system causing them moral injury , knowing they were providing substandard care to their patients when one in three permanent psychiatrists positions were vacant.

The doctors union, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation (Asmof), representing the psychiatrists against NSW Health , argued the special levy was necessary to avoid the “collapse” of psychiatric care in the state.

On Friday Justice David Chin announced that a special case had been made out justifying the pa

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