Print this page

Reporting Notifiable Incidents – Private Psychiatric Hostels

Please refer to the Policy for Reporting of Notifiable Incidents to the Chief Psychiatrist – Private Psychiatric Hostels for information on the statutory requirements for reporting and to the Notifiable Incident Reporting Form – Private Psychiatric Hostels.

Please download the form and save it your desktop, then open it from your desktop and complete the form and click ‘save.’ Then attach the completed form to an e-mail and send to monitoring@ocp.wa.gov.au.

The Chief Psychiatrist is responsible for overseeing the treatment and care of voluntary, involuntary, mentally impaired accused clients, and patients referred or detained under the MHA 2014. Notifiable incidents must be reported to the Chief Psychiatrist for persons receiving psychiatric care as:

  • an inpatient of a mental health service,
  • an inpatient of a general health service receiving concurrent treatment from mental health services,
  • a client of community mental health services,
  • an inpatient of drug and alcohol services receiving concurrent treatment from mental health services.

Private psychiatric hostels are included in the definition of a mental health service under the MHA 2014 section (s) 252 and s 507 for the purposes of reporting notifiable incidents.

It is a statutory requirement under the Mental Health Act (MHA) 2014 that all notifiable incidents pertaining to psychiatric patients resident in a private psychiatric hostel are reported to the Chief Psychiatrist as soon as practicable, ideally within 48 hours of the event.

Private psychiatric hostels in scope of reporting to the Chief Psychiatrist
  • Albany Community Supported Residential Units
  • Arnott Villas
  • Bentley Community Options
  • Bentley Villas
  • BP Luxury Care
  • Bunbury Community Supported Residential Care Unit
  • Burswood Care
  • Busselton Community Supported Residential Units
  • Cannington Accommodation Unit
  • Casson House
  • Devenish Lodge
  • Honey Brook Lodge
  • Kelmscott Community Options
  • Mann Way
  • Medina Accommodation Unit
  • Midland Accommodation Unit
  • Momentum QP Youth Mental Health
  • Mount Claremont Community Options
  • Ngatti House
  • Ngulla Mia
  • Ngurra Nganhungu Barndiyigu
  • Queens Park Service
  • Romily House
  • Salisbury Home
  • St Jude’s Hostel
  • Stirling Community Options
  • Sunflower Villas
  • Swan View House
  • Swan Villas
  • Vincentcare Bayswater House
  • Vincentcare Duncraig House
  • Vincentcare Vincentian Village
  • Vincentcare Warwick House
Notifiable incidents include, but are not limited to:
  1. Deaths
  2. Assault and/or aggression
  3. Allegations of sexual harassment and/or sexual assault
  4. Attempted suicide
  5. Medication error
  6. Missing person
  7. Unlawful sexual contact with the patient by a staff member
  8. The patient is harmed by alleged or suspected unreasonable use of force by a staff member of a mental health service and/or of a private psychiatric hostel.
 

All contents copyright Government of Western Australia. All rights reserved.

Web Design by Media on Mars

Please subscribe to automatically receive an email when an update is posted on the Chief Psychiatrist's website.