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Banksia Mental Health Unit upgrade: new mental health facility to get 33 beds in 8 bed upgrade

Andrew Messenger
Updated August 3 2020 - 6:18pm, first published 5:15pm
Red letter day: Tamworth Mental Health Carers' Support Group member Joan Wakeford has been campaigning for an upgraded Banksia Mental Health Unit for years. Photo: Peter Hardin
Red letter day: Tamworth Mental Health Carers' Support Group member Joan Wakeford has been campaigning for an upgraded Banksia Mental Health Unit for years. Photo: Peter Hardin

Tamworth is set to get a new mental health hospital with eight extra beds after the replacement of the existing Banksia Mental Health Unit, the Minister for Mental Health announced today.

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Andrew Messenger

Andrew Messenger

Northern Daily Leader journalist

Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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