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eceive a brief intervention from the PMHC rather than (or prior to) a more expensive package of care.
The clinical positions require some administrative support (eg., project management, paperwork
involved in referring patients to different non-government organisations, scoring questionnaires,
monitoring). Therefore there is also a need for non-clinical roles to provide this support.”
This provides an appropriate blue print for the West Coast for further development and
integration of mental health services.
4 Objectives
To improve patient care by better integration between community mental health
services and primary health care and more collaboration amongst primary mental health,
secondary mental health, NGOs and social services.
To continue to support general practice teams to provide screening, initial assessments,
and extended consultations.
To develop a common set of assessment processes.
To develop a primary care based assessment service for all new adult patients (except
those referred acutely to the TACT team) .
To develop the primary mental health co-ordinator role.
to develop stepped care pathways and packages of care for patients with different
levels of severity and complexity, including shared care arrangements.
To re-design discharge planning processes to include primary care.
To extend the Kaupapa Māori mental health service to include tangata whai ora in both
primary and secondary mental health care settings.
To improve the patient pathway for Māori by establishing a whanau ora approach to the
delivery of services.
To develop a population health approach for all mental health services with service
delivery focused on the enrolled population in each IFHC.
to increase mental health promotional activities and support for self care.
5 Benefits and gains
Output measures
Indicator
Number of primary mental health
co-ordinators appointed
Single point of entry to mental
health services
Number of Multi Disciplinary Team
meetings within practices / IFHCs
Baseline
09 year
Target – End
Yr 1
Year 2 Year 3
1 3 3 3
Not in
place
Established
Continued
and revised
Continued
1/mth 3/mth 6/mth 6/mth
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