By TAMHSS Committee December 2020
Leader: Alan Rosen, AO. Project Team: Roger Gurr, Paul O’Halloran, Richard
Buss, Vivienne Miller, Paul Fanning Augmented Project Team: Leanne Craze,
Douglas Holmes, Hamish Hill
This framework sets out the major components of a comprehensive, accessible and effective mental health service; it proposes a co-operative, integrated approach between all providers involved in the provision of mental health care; it outlines principles for mental health service delivery, and proposes a continuum (ie integration) across the public, private, NGO and primary health care sectors, and promotes “bottom-up” locality based service planning. It is the culmination of work started in 2015, when TAMHSS in conjunction with the Australian National Mental Health Commission prepared an Implementation Guide and a checklist of recommendations for practical actions regarding the essential components of care across state, regional and local levels.
