Primary Health Tasmania’s Mental Health Continuum of Care Project aims to improve Tasmanians’ experience of and outcomes from the mental health services we commission.
It involves gathering information and feedback about the current service model to help inform a new model focused on improved coordination and integration.
Other Primary Health Networks have successfully transitioned to continuum of care models, achieving improvements in streamlined care.
Our focus will initially be on the following types of services we commission:
Primary Health Tasmania is committed to an inclusive development process for the new service model.
We believe the best outcomes are achieved when the development of new models is collaborative.
Along with our external consultant Scyne, we are engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, including those with lived experience. This will ensure our approach is not only comprehensive but also holds true to the experiences of those impacted by our services.
Through targeted consultations, we are seeking feedback from service providers, healthcare professionals, service users, and other people who have firsthand experience with mental health services.
We will draw on the insights gathered to develop the new service model.
This will occur in two distinct phases:
We will be holding community consultation sessions around Tasmania – and online – in June where we’ll share what we’ve learnt from stakeholders so far, and seek feedback on possible elements of a new model for certain mental health services.
For more information about the workshops in Hobart, Launceston and Devonport and the online sessions, click here. Help spread the word – you can download a poster here.
This evaluation summary is useful pre-reading for the consultation sessions. As part of the first phase of this project, we undertook an internal evaluation of the four in-scope commissioned mental health services to assess how well they are meeting the needs of Tasmanians and to identify opportunities for improvement. This report draws on service data as well as provider and client input.
If you have any questions about this project, please send us an email.