1. How are PHNs Personalising the Mental Health System?

2. Procurement of services
The role of PHNs
Population health
Undertake population health needs assessment * Identify service gaps
Local priorities
Plan health services based upon identified need
Service integration
With GPs
Across health system
With established local and national clinical bodies
Clinical councils
Community advisory committees
Procurement of services
Undertake purchasing activities
Integrate care across the entire health system
Only provide services where demonstrable market failure exists

3. Collaboration with System Partners
PHN
LHDs
NGOs
SHNs
CMOs
Research orgs
ACCO, AHOs GP
AHP
Carers
NDIS providers
Lived experience

4. Six Key Mental Health Priorities
Targeting of low intensity psychological interventions
Early intervention for children and young people
Provision of psychological therapies (underserviced)
People experiencing severe mental illness in primary care
A regional approach to suicide prevention
Enhancement and integration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health services

5. How is CESPHN supporting choice and control?
Stepped care
Commissioning of services
Regional planning
Co-design of service models and solutions
Trailing new models of care and services
Information, education and training

6. Stepped care Assesses needs of an individual
Identifies evidence based interventions
Matches needs of the individual to the right intensity of intervention
Ensures care is working for the person through adequate follow up and monitoring
Allows flexibility to move across service levels to support recovery

7. Stepped Care Principles

8. Commissioning
Evaluation
* Your Experience of Service

9. Regional planning Needs assessment Planning to meet needs
Include people with lived experience, their families and carers
Focus on underserviced, at risk, populations for whom services are often inaccessible.
Identify primary mental health care gaps

11. New Economics Foundation, 2011
“Designing and delivering services and systems in an equal and reciprocal relationship between professionals, people using services, their families and their community”
New Economics Foundation, 2011

12. Co-design Best practice for service design
Acknowledging consumers, carers, families and community know what works best for them
Maximising decision making opportunities for participants
Genuine partnerships
Capacity building

13. Services we commission
Provide a broad mix and range of services to meet community needs.
Address demand, and provide individuals with choice and service options
Recovery focused and person centred
Funded to deliver better outcomes
Provide improved access, clearer referral processes, extended service hours, flexible modes of delivery
Ensure links to primary care, specialist supports, and social supports as required by the individual

14. Commissioned Services Examples
Mindfulness
Coaching services
Mental Health First Aid Training
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health services
Psychological support services for underserviced and hard to reach groups 
Early intervention for severe mental illness
Suicide prevention initiatives
Group therapy
headspace centres
Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program
Multidisciplinary teams

15. Trial New Models of Care
Lead PHN site for stepped care and low intensity mental health services
Match service to needs (stepped care)
Develop, test and share models of low intensity interventions

16. Trial of a GP Practice Stepped Care Clinic
Partnership with Blackdog Institute, GPs, CESPHN
Online screening tool in waiting room
Identifying adults with anxiety and depression
recommending evidence based stepped care treatment (matching to needs/preference)
monitor progress and provide feedback.

17. Trial in five headspace centres with Synergy Online Ecosystem
Online assessment tool, links young people to appropriate support, monitor progress and outcomes

18. Education and Information
Support our primary health care workforce through continuing professional development and information sessions
Stepped care
Low intensity treatments
Developing mental health treatment plans
Suicide prevention
Severe and enduring mental illness
Trauma informed and recovery oriented practice

19. Website

20. Website

22. For more information Visit our website www.cesphn.org.au
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