The Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network Mental Health Services Plan 2023-2028 (PDF 8130KB) provides a new direction to improve mental health services in RMCLHN over the next five years from 2023 through to 2028.
It is focussed on the provision of high-quality specialist mental health services in our region that promote dignity, respect, choice, independence, and social connections.
It outlines how we will support consumers to navigate mental health services with greater ease, to ensure they can access the help and supports they need, when they need them.
It also outlines how we will address service tensions, work together with our partners, strengthen our services, and build our workforce.
About the Mental Health Service Plan
- clearly outlines our mental health service improvement priorities across Riverland Mallee Coorong communities over the next five years
- enables our consumers and community to access compassionate human-centred care that is integrated across our sectors and considers those who are in most need
- develops and grows our committed, competent and passionate mental health staff and clinicians as a means to strengthen and expand our workforce capacity.
- enhances mutually beneficial collaboration across sectors to support prevention and early access to help
- understands and addresses the service tensions that impact on our ability to provide excellence in mental health care.
How RMCLHN will achieve their requirements as per the Mental Health Service Plan
Address service tensions by
- Developing a collective mindset that mental health is everyone’s responsibility
- Seeking equitable funding.
Work together with our partners by
- Creating opportunities to collaborate across sectors (e.g. SAAS, SAPOL, NGOs, PHNs etc)
- Supporting prevention and early access to help.
Strengthen our workforce by
- Building stronger recruitment and retention practices
- Designing and delivering increased training and education
- Developing our workforce to meet community needs.
Build our services by
- Strengthening social and emotional wellbeing services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Integrating our care
- Providing human-centred care
- Facilitating clear access and pathways to care.
Hard copy versions of the Plan are also available at our hospitals and health sites.
Aims
The Plan aims to meet current and evolving needs as identified by our consumers, communities and key stakeholders.
Consultation
It was developed using a co-design approach in consultation with consumers, community members, staff, clinicians, and other key stakeholders, before being made available for broad public consultation in May 2023.