Dr Kate Jackson

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National Action Plan for Mental Health and NSW
implementation plan
Dr Kate Jackson Principal Policy Analyst, Older
Peoples Mental Health Centre for Mental
Health NSW Health October 2006
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National Action Plan for Mental Health

• Council of Australian Governments (COAG)
• National Action Plan to enhance reform mental
  health system
• 4 billion over 5 years
• 1.9 billion Commonwealth funding
• 938.9 million NSW Government funding
• Plan in 2 parts
• Broad strategic framework
• Individual Implementation Plans
• www.coag.gov.au

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Key areas for action

• Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention
• Participation in the Community and Employment,
  including Accommodation
• Coordinating Care
• Increasing Workforce Capacity

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Commonwealth

• Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention
  (158.3 million)
• Expanding Suicide Prevention Programmes (62.4
  million)
• Alerting the Community to Links between Illicit
  Drugs and Mental Illness (21.6 million)
• New Early Intervention Services for Parents,
  Children and Young People (28.1 million)
• Community Based Programmes to help Families
  Coping with Mental Illness (45.2 million)
• Increased Funding for the Mental Health Council
  of Australia (1.0 million)

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Commonwealth

• Integrating and Improving the Care System
  (1,196.9 million)
• Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and
  General Practitioners (GPs) through the Medical
  Benefits Schedule (MBS) (538m)
• New Funding for Mental Health Nurses (191.6m)
• Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Areas
  (51.7m)
• Improved Services for People with Drug and
  Alcohol Problems and Mental Illness (73.9m)
• Funding for Telephone Counselling, Self-Help and
  Web-based Support Programmes (56.9m)
• New Personal Helpers and Mentors (284.8m)
• to be contd

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Commonwealth

• Participation in the Community and Employment,
  including Accommodation (370.0 million)
• Helping People with a Mental Illness enter and
  remain in Employment (39.8 million)
• Support for Day-to-Day living in the Community
  (46.0 million)
• Helping Young People stay in Education (59.5
  million)
• More Respite Care Places to help Families and
  Carers (224.7 million)

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Commonwealth

• Increasing Workforce Capacity (129.9 million)
• Additional Education Places, Scholarships and
  Clinical Training in Mental Health (103.5
  million)
• Mental Health in Tertiary Curricula (5.6
  million)
• Improving the Capacity of Health Workers in
  Indigenous Communities (20.8 million)

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New South Wales

• Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention
  (102.2 million)
• Expanding University Based Research (10.0
  million)
• Expanding Early Intervention Services for Youth
  (28.6 million)
• Specialist Assessment of the Needs of Older
  People (37.3 million)
• Statewide 24-hour Mental Health Access by
  Telephone (26.3 million)

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New South Wales

• Integrating and Improving the Care System (699.7
  million)
• Enhancing Community Mental Health Emergency Care
  (51.4 million)
• Expansion of Community Forensic Mental Health
  Services (6.5 million)
• Better Integration of Mental Health Services with
  Drug and Alcohol Services (17.6 million)
• Supporting People with Mental Illness in the
  Prison System (5.0 million)
• to be contd

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New South Wales

• Integrating and Improving the Care System (699.7
  million) (cont.)
• Further increasing the Number of Acute and
  Non-acute Mental Health Beds (151.7 million)
• Building and Operating New Forensic Facility at
  Long Bay Prison (171.6 million)
• Expansion of Community-based Professional Mental
  Health Services including Child and Adolescent
  Services (14.3 million)
• to be contd

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New South Wales

• Integrating and Improving the Care System (699.7
  million) (cont.)
• Specialist Mental Health Services for Older
  People (10.8 million)
• Improving Mental Health Clinical Information and
  Accountability (7.6 million)
• Building New Facilities to Accommodate New Mental
  Health Beds including Works at Lismore, Coffs
  Harbour, Illawarra and Bloomfield Hospital
  (117.0 million)
• to be contd

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New South Wales

• Integrating and Improving the Care System (699.7
  million) (cont.)
• Redevelop and Integrate Mental Health Services
  with Drug and Alcohol Services at St Vincents
  Hospital (23.0 million)
• Refurbishing and relocating Mental Health
  Facilities at Concord, Gosford, Newcastle and
  Orange hospitals (117.4 million)
• Establishing Psychiatric Emergency Care Centres
  (5.8 million)

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New South Wales

• Participation in the Community and Employment,
  including Accommodation (113.8 million)
• Housing Accommodation and Support Initiative
  (58.8 million)
• Community Rehabilitation Services (41.5 million)
• Enhance New South Wales Family and Carer Mental
  Health Programme (13.5 million)

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New South Wales

• Increasing Workforce Capacity (23.2 million)
• Mental Health Workforce Programme (11.0 million)
• Aboriginal Mental Health Workforce Programme
  (12.2 million)