Carlton Quartly, Manager Clinical Governance

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NSW Mental Health Initiatives Presentation to
NSW GP Divisions
Carlton Quartly, Manager Clinical
Governance Marc Reynolds, Manager Clinical
Services Development Lynelle Richards, SPO MH
Rehabilition Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol
Office
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Linking physical and mental healthit makes sense

• Initiative launched by Minister in May 2009.
• Goals of the initiative.
• Supported at the local level.
• Workshops planned for 2010.
• E-learning resource is under development.

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Supporting Families Early (SFE)

• New SAFE START Consultation-Liaison positions
  being established in each Area in 2010.
• National Perinatal Depression Initiative (NPDI)
  will fund new teams in three Areas to provide
  follow-up care and family-focused support for
  women who are experiencing severe or complex
  mental health problems during the perinatal
  period.
• Through NPDI funding, NSW Health will expand
  existing SFE and SAFE START Education for a wider
  audience

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Keep Them Safe-Whole Family Teams

• MHDA - Whole Family Teams.
• Whole Family Teams will address the needs of
  whole families where carers have mental health
  and/or drug and alcohol problems, parenting
  difficulties and child protection concerns
• five year funding beginning in 2009/10
• pilots in four locations Lismore, Newcastle,
  Wyong and Nowra.
• provide specialist assessment, group, family and
  individual interventions with assertive outreach.
  

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Youth Mental Health

• New models of service
• Focus on early intervention and prevention
• State-wide uptake of Youth Mental Health Service
  (YMHS) models
• Flexibility in YHMS model design
• Valuable integration of YHMS models and Headspace
  sites

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Eating Disorders

• Centre for Eating and Dieting Disorders (CEDD) GP
  initiatives
• Expanding range of training options
• Medical and psychological /mental health issues
• MHDAO funds a Statewide Service Development
  Coordinator, 4 AHS Coordinators and 2 Pilot day
  clinics
• Clinical support line for clinical support and
  referral contact point

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Emergency MH responses

• Collaboration with Police and Ambulance
• MoU
• IDC Alliance of NSW GPs represented
• LPC processes
• MH Act 2007
• Building MH awareness and skills for Police and
  Ambulance
• Additional MH presence and capacity in EDs
• GPs encouraged to use Ambulance for transport

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State Mental Health Telephone Access Line (SMHTAL)

• Single point (1800) access to mental health
  telephone triage, advice and referral to local MH
  services
• AHSs are being supported by NSW Health to provide
  24/7 telephone response by mental health
  professionals and to operate mental telephone
  triage services that meet state wide performance
  Standards
• Due to go live state wide by mid 2010
• Targeting new referrals.

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NSW Service Plan for Specialist Mental Health
Services for Older People 2005-2015

• Based in Orange and with a state wide focus
• The Service Plan is a statewide service delivery
  framework to ensure health care and the support
  needs of older people with mental health problems
• Partnerships between specialist mental health
  teams and GPs.
• Direct advice on care planning
• Dementia guidelines and Framework

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Mental Health for GPs education program - IoP

• Post graduate certificate, diploma and masters
• Mental Health skills Workshops
• Scholarships

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VETE and Rehabilitation

• Recovery and resource services program
• Clinical Partnership coordinators
• Commonwealth funded services