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AGPN’s response to the Ten Year Roadmap for National Mental Health Reform
AGPN has drafted a response to the Ten Year Roadmap for National Mental Health reform. The major areas of concern from AGPN’s perspective, is that the Roadmap lacks a strong focus on primary care and appears too narrow in it’s focus. AGPN’s response can be accessed at A Roadmap of a Roadblock?
Changes to Better Access announced by the Minister for Mental Health
The Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler has announced Changes to the Better Access Program. The Government has only reinstated the additional six sessions available to patients under the exceptional circumstances provision from March 2012 until the 31 December 2012.
The reinstatement follows changes to the Better Access program in the 2011-2012 Federal Budget in which the number of Medicare rebates for services delivered by Allied Health providers was reduced from 12 individual sessions to 10 individual sessions within a calendar and the six sessions in exceptional circumstances were scrapped altogether.
For more information or to access the Ministers statement, please follow the link Changes to Better Access
The Department of Health and Ageing have developed a Fact Sheet and Questions and answers section to support this announcement.
Evaluating the Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) component of the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOiMHC) program
18th interim evaluation report
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics
University of Melbourne
This is the full report detailing the achievements of the Tier 1 and Tier 2 ATAPS program.
Co-ordinated Care Workshop Report
Australian General Practice Network
This report details the key findings and outcomes from the Co-ordinated Care Workshop which was held on September 21st 2011 at Parliament House for Tranche 1 Medicare Locals and other key stakeholders. The Department of Health and Ageing and the Minister’s Office have accepted the Report and are considering the outcomes.
The attachments identified in the report can be accessed by using the following links.
Coordinated Care Background Paper_Attachment A
Co-ordinated Care Workshop attendees list_attachment B
Coordinated Care Issues Raised_Attachment C
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