Partners in Mind - Primary Mental Health in Queensland

The Queensland Mental Health
Partnerships Initiative

The QLD MH Partnerships Initiative The Framework for Mental Health Partnerships in Queensland What's New

Partners in Mind: The Queensland Mental Health Partnerships Initiative aims to improve patient outcomes by working towards ideal primary mental health care.

Ideal primary mental health care has been defined by this initiative in consultation with service providers across the state to be where:

all available resources are utilised as effectively as possible, services are interconnected and work well together, clients can easily access and navigate the system and do not fall through gaps, services provided are evidence-based and address the broad spectrum of client needs, the work required to develop linkages is prioritised, funded and supported, funding is provided efficiently and appropriately to local services, and there are enough resources to meet local demand.



 
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General Practice Queensland (GPQ), with funding from the Australian Government Dept of Health and Ageing (AGDHA) and Queensland Health (QH), has coordinated Partners in Mind (PIM) since 2005 – AGDHA and QH jointly funded the first year of development, the following implementation years (2007-2009) have been funded by QH. The focus of PIM has been to develop the Framework for Mental Health Partnerships in Queensland ('the Framework') and to support both local and state level implementation.

In developing the Framework, GPQ brought mental health service providers across Queensland together to identify best practice principles and systems and build a greater sense of unity and understanding across professions and organisations.

The Framework itself contains numerous elements for implementation at a local and a state level. These elements can be used by a service provider/agency to either implement elements of the Framework within their own agency, or to facilitate broader regional/state level implementation with other service providers/agencies.

The Framework also includes suggested outcomes to work towards and potential strategies to support implementation. This website, and in particular, the Making it Happen section, contains a range of resources and tools to assist with implementation.


  • Extended the funding for the implementation of the PIM Framework

    Queensland Health has recently extended the funding for the implementation of the Partners in Mind Framework to 30 June 2009. During the next phase...

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