strive

v.
overstretched adj. excessively stretched

Mentally ill patients are swamping Victoria's hospital emergency departments because psychiatric services are overstretched.

One in 25 of the hospitals' nearly one million emergency patients last year were seeking treatment for a mental condition.
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He said most mental patients should not be coming to emergency at all. "In an ideal world . . . the crisis assessment teams would be able to assess them in the community . . . and we would be able to directly admit patients to our mental health inpatient beds," he said. "We still strive towards that."

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