Country mental health services

Country Health SA provides recovery-focused mental health services to people over 18 years of age with mental illness living in regional and remote areas of South Australia. The goal is to ensure care and rehabilitation that supports people in their recovery.

Rural and remote service

Our Rural and Remote Service (based at Glenside Campus) provides inpatient care and distance support for country people and mental health service providers.  

The Rural and Remote Distance Consultation and Emergency Triage and Liaison Service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week on 13 14 65. It is available to:

• community members
• primary care providers (such as community health, pharmacists)
• acute inpatient units
• non-government organisations
• general practitioners
• regional hospitals.

This service is staffed by mental health clinicians who triage admissions to the inpatient service and provide a comprehensive range of advice and support including access to psychiatrists.

The Rural and Remote Service also incorporates a telepsychiatry service which uses video conferencing to enable a person to remain in or close to their own community while receiving psychiatric consultations for initial assessment, discharge planning and ongoing treatment.

• Rural and Remote Inpatient Unit (Glenside Campus)
  Telephone: (08) 8303 1139
• Telemedicine/Telepsychiatry Unit
  Telephone: (08) 8303 1348

Local country mental health services

Local mental health clinicians work within local clinical health networks to coordinate care and provide integrated service delivery for people with mental illness.

There are 15 mental health teams in country areas that provide services from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday.

The after hours/emergency on-call service is managed via the local health unit emergency department or the Emergency Triage and Liaison Service on 13 14 65.

Regular visiting psychiatry services are provided to country areas. For information on referral to a visiting psychiatrist, contact the team closest to where you live.

Country Health SA Mental Health Team locations and contact numbers:

Clare – telephone: (08) 8841 3500     

• Burra
• Snowtown
• Minlaton
• Riverton

Gawler – telephone: (08) 8521 2080       

• Angaston
• Barossa
• Eudunda
• Kapunda
• Tanunda

Kangaroo Island – telephone: (08) 8553 4231    

• Kingscote

Mount Barker – telephone: (08) 8393 1833   

• Adelaide Hills
• Gumeracha
• Mount Pleasant
• Southern Fleurieu
• Strathalbyn

Murray Bridge – telephone: (08) 8535 6800     

• Karoonda
• Lameroo
• Mannum
• Meningie
• Pinnaroo
• Tailem Bend

Port Augusta – telephone: (08) 8648 5800   

• Pika Wiya
• Hawker
• Leigh Creek
• Quorn
• Roxby Downs
• Woomera

Port Lincoln - telephone: (08) 8683 2083    

• Ceduna (includes Ceduna Koonibba, Oak Valley, Yalata)
• Cummins
• Elliston
• Lock
• Streaky Bay
• Tumby Bay
• Wudinna

Port Pirie – telephone: (08) 8638 4693      

• Booleroo Centre
• Crystal Brook
• Gladstone
• Jamestown
• Laura
• Orroroo
• Peterborough
• Port Broughton
• Port Pearce

Riverland – telephone: (08) 8588 0424    

• Barmera
• Berri
• Loxton
• Renmark
• Waikerie

South East – telephone: (08) 8721 1507    

• Bordertown
• Kingston SE
• Millicent
• Mount Gambier
• Naracoorte
• Penola

Victor Harbor – telephone: (08) 8552 0600 (South Coast District Hospital)

Wallaroo – telephone: (08) 8823 0270       

• Kadina
• Maitland
• Yorketown

Whyalla - telephone: (08) 8644 5130     

• Cleve
• Coober Pedy
• Cowell
• Kimba
• Oodnadatta

Yorke & Lower North – telephone: (08) 8853 2308   

• Balaklava

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

There are a number of CAMHS services located in country areas, which you can contact for an appointment:

  Northern CAMHS Country Services – 
  referrals telephone: 1800 819 089 (freecall)

• Barossa (and Lower North)
• Port Augusta
• Port Lincoln
• Port Pirie
• Whyalla
• Yorke Peninsula
  

  Southern CAMHS Country Services

• Kangaroo Island – telephone: (08) 8553 2037
• Mount Barker – telephone: (08) 8391 3922
• Mount Gambier – telephone: (08) 8724 7055
• Murray Bridge – telephone: (08) 8531 3901
• Riverland – telephone: (08) 8582 4290
• Victor Harbor – telephone: (08) 8552 9874

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