How has private psychiatry in Australia responded to the COVID-19 pandemic?

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the role of private psychiatry, which responded to the crisis with expanded outpatient/telehealth practice and ongoing private hospital care, complementary to public sector care. Despite the significance of the private sector, it has been largely overlooked in recent reports from the Productivity Commission, the Royal Commission into Victorian Mental Health Services and the Fifth National Mental Health Plan....