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Seclusion and Restraint Data
30 Apr 2019
The Chief Psychiatrist is committed to reducing the rate of restrictive practices, seclusion and restraint, in Western Australia (WA). Nationally, WA has been a leader in reducing the rates of…
Rotterdam Declaration
17 Apr 2019
On September 3 – 4, 2018, over 100 leaders from nearly 20 countries convened at the Zero Suicide International 4 summit in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Here they designed the revision…
Mental Health Complaint Handling Guidelines
9 Apr 2019
The Health and Disability Services Complaints Office (HaDSCO) has now finalised and released the Guidelines for handling complaints about mental health services for service providers to use as a reference…
INFORM – Autumn 2019
25 Mar 2019
The Chief Psychiatrist’s INFORM Newsletter for Autumn 2019 is now available. Chief Psychiatrist’s INFORM Newsletter – Autumn 2019
MH-Smile: Better Mental Health through Screening and Monitoring physical health, brief Intervention and health Literacy Education
19 Mar 2019
MH-SMILE is a 12 month program to improve physical health outcomes in people with a mental health concern/illness, living in the Cockburn region of Western Australia (WA). The program sims…
Invitation to Presentation by Dr Mathew Coleman, Consultant Psychiatrist: Findings- Specialist Smoking Cessation Clinic
19 Dec 2018
Australians with mental illness have higher smoking rates than the general population and they are more likely to die as a consequence of smoking than from their psychiatric condition. Smoking…
Towards Eliminating Restrictive Practices (TERP) Forum: 2018 Keynote Speaker Session Videos
18 Dec 2018
The 12th National Towards Eliminating Restrictive Practices (TERP) Forum was held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart, 7 – 8 November 2018. All plenary sessions at the 2018 TERP Forum were filmed…
The Third Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation 2018
11 Dec 2018
The Third Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation will be officially launched today by the Minister for Health, the Hon. Greg Hunt. Exploring variation in care is one way of identifying…
Policy for Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Incidents to the Chief Psychiatrist 2018
2 Oct 2018
The Mental Health Act (MHA) 2014 section 526 requires mental health services to report notifiable incidents to the Chief Psychiatrist when they occur in respect to a person under MHA…