Queries about Community Treatment Orders (CTO) are among the most common reasons for mental health staff to contact the Chief Psychiatrist’s Clinical Helpdesk. The OCP has put together a sheet…
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eLearning – Communicating Risks and Benefits
16 Jul 2019
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care Helping patients make informed decisions: communicating risks and benefits Health decisions often have no single ‘best choice’ and require choosing from…
RANZCP New Professional Practice Guidelines for the administering electroconvulsive therapy.
14 Jun 2019
The Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) has recently published professional practice guidelines that provide practical guidance for psychiatrists prescribing and administering electroconvulsive therapy. Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is…
Feedback sought – Chief Psychiatrist’s Standards for Clinical Care
23 May 2019
The Chief Psychiatrist is seeking your feedback about the Chief Psychiatrist’s Standards for Clinical Care. Please share your opinion to help us improve! The survey will take less than 5…
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…