Queensland’s health minister has left the door open to reviewing all public psychiatric services in the state, after the suicides of two young people who had been treated on the Gold Coast.

Queensland Health announced at the weekend it had commissioned a four-person team to review Gold Coast Health’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service, based at Robina Hospital.

It came amid mounting pressure from the families of two people who took their own lives in the past five years after they were treated there.

Asked on Monday whether he would consider a statewide review, Health Minister Tim Nicholls said he was open to considering “further work across the state”.

“People taking their own lives always leaves questions, and I understand the very real angst, anguish and concern that the families

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