This paper outlines a project currently being undertaken in rural NSW that aims to evaluate
the mental health status and level of functioning of patients with acute mental illness in rural …

The South Australian rural mental health service manages a large population of
approximately 475 000 spread over a large area of 983 482 km2. This area is serviced by 52 …

Objective: To identify reasons why rural general practitioners (GPs) treat a large proportion
of patients with a primary psychiatric diagnosis in general beds of their local hospitals, and …

Reports on the challenges faced by Welsh mental health service if they are to meet national
targets and close all the remaining Victorian type hospitals by the end of 2008 in Great …

Objective To evaluate a rural emergency telepsychiatry program, the Mental Health
Emergency Care–Rural Access Program (MHEC-RAP), which aims to improve access to …

Background In line with developments in the rest of Britain, the pattern of care in mental
illness services in Wales is currently undergoing a major transformation. In May, 1989 the …

The article presents a qualitative evaluation completed in South Australia to understand the
impact of decentralized mental health services. The need to understand the benefits and …

In 1992, Australian Health Ministers adopted the Australian National Mental Health Strategy,
the first National Mental Health Plan to come out of the strategy called for the …

Our objective was to establish a mechanism for monitoring indicators of the state of health of
inner London's mental illness services. Data were collected for a census week around 15 …

This is a brief preliminary report on the model for a partnership between a public mental
health service, Far West Local Health District, and Neami National, a Community Managed …