About

The current model of care for area mental health based acute inpatient units in Victoria was initially conceived as part of the deinstitutionalisation process that took place in the 1990’s. The model of care that emerged at that time to support the 25 bedded adult acute unit with a fixed catchment area has largely remained unchanged since that time. While there has been some addition of specialist beds for certain disorders or population, there has not been any further development in specialisation in acute psychiatry units. The rest of medicine continues to further specialise with focus on specific disorders leading to substantial improvement in health outcomes.

The recent addition of 260 new acute public mental health beds in Victoria creates an ideal opportunity to review how we provide inpatient care in public mental health services. It allows us to challenge ourselves to consider how we can best use this valuable resource in an evidenced based manner that focus on better outcomes for consumers and a more engaged and satisficed workforce.

Join us for this important one day forum where we bring together experts from across Australia and Internationally to challenge current thinking, generate discussion and help us imagine new ways for providing care.

The forum will focus on three key areas and aims to actively engaging attendees in thought provoking discussion and cross fertilisation of ideas.

• Lessons from the other side
  • • Changes and progressions in acute and sub acute areas of health system
    • What happening elsewhere?
• Examples of clinical specialisation with mental health
  • • Women’s Mental Units
    • Intensive Care Areas
• Doing the same thing and expecting different outcomes
  • • Generating discussion and conversation about challenges and opportunities
    • What would specialisation look like in mental health inpatient units?

The program will finish with an expert panel discussion.

This conference is suitable for all members of the mental health workforce with an interest in service redesign including medical staff, nurses, allied health, psychologist and lived experience workers.

SPEAKERS

• Dr Gareth Goodier who has over 30 years experience as a Healthcare Chief Executive / Healthcare Consultant, Western Australia.
• Professor Tim Lambert from The Collaborative Centre for Cardiometabolic Health in Psychosis (ccCHiP), New South Wales.
• Trudy Brown, Nurse Practitioner @ Northern Health Women’s Mental Health Unit, Victoria.
• Professor David Copolov AO, Monash Health, Victoria.
• Dr Ranga Rao, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, United Kingdom.

Further details to follow on the full day program.

Location

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Ibis Melbourne
15/21 Terry Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000

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