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Welcome to the Brisbane North PHN My voice mental health, alcohol and other drugs engagement hub.
This site will share information and invite participants to engage with the PHN during the planning and commissioning of mental health, alcohol and other drug services.
Information regarding the PHN's role in mental health, alcohol and other drug treatment services is available at the PHN website.
Welcome to the Brisbane North PHN My voice mental health, alcohol and other drugs engagement hub.
This site will share information and invite participants to engage with the PHN during the planning and commissioning of mental health, alcohol and other drug services.
Information regarding the PHN's role in mental health, alcohol and other drug treatment services is available at the PHN website.
Psychological services for underserviced groups (Brisbane MIND) – children, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTI, trauma and abuse, suicide prevention
Service hubs for people with severe mental illness
Tender information will be available from Monday 21 January via our tendering website Tenderlink. You can register now and receive an email notification when the tenders are live www.tenderlink.com/brisbanenorthphn.
Four sector briefing sessions will be held in late January 2019 for anyone interested in tendering for or being a partner in these services. Each two hour session will cover:
Each briefing session will include the same information and you can attend one or more sessions. Attendance at a session is not mandatory in order to submit a tender. A summary of questions and answers from the sessions will be available from our tender website at the conclusion of the four sessions.
In preparation for new contracts with providers for primary mental health care services from 1July 2019, Brisbane North PHN has undertaken a number of reviews of services.
Over the past six months, the PHN has worked with consumers and carers, providers and other stakeholders to decide how existing and new primary mental health care services commissioned by the PHN will evolve (click here for further details on this work).
Based on the feedback provided the PHN has now developed a draft ‘Procurement Strategy’ that provides an overview of the proposed changes the PHN would like to make to our procurement of primary mental health and suicide prevention services from 1 July 2019.
CLICK HERE to view the draft Procurement Strategy.
This includes the continuation of a number of services and contracts as well as new procurement in the areas of psychological therapies for underserviced groups and services for people with severe mental illness.
We are seeking your comments on these proposals by Monday 10 December 2018. To provide your comments please send an email to MHAOD@brisbanenorethphn.org.au(External link).
In preparation for new contracts with providers for primary mental health care services from 1 July 2019, Brisbane North PHN is undertaking a number of reviews of services.
In line with ‘Planning for Wellbeing: A draft regional plan for North Brisbane and Moreton Bay focusing on mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drug treatment services 2018-2013’, the goal of PHN commissioned services is to contribute to meeting the vision of:
The PHN and commissioned providers are committed to improving quality, coordination and integration of services to support people to achieve their goals.
Overall, our review of current and new commissioning of primary mental healthcare services will be guided by the following questions:
To gain an overview of our review processes, please read the paper ‘What’s next’
In the document library specific papers are also available for reviews into:
If you have any comments or questions about any of the reviews, or to express your interest in participating in co-design activities, please email myvoice@brisbanenorthphn.org.au
Brisbane North PHN and Metro North Hospital and Health Service have sponsored the development of a plan to improve mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drug treatment services in North Brisbane and Moreton Bay
Stakeholders are invited to provide input on the draft five year plan, Planning for wellbeing, which sets out the challenges facing the sector and establishes future directions for the region as a whole, not just for the two sponsoring organisations.
Brisbane North PHN Executive Manager, Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs Paul Martin said the plan had been developed in partnership with other healthcare providers and practitioners, people with a lived experience and carers.
“People with a lived experience are leading the change and actions to strengthen their involvement at all levels of planning, delivery and evaluation start off the plan,” Mr Martin said.
“The plan then outlines our shared objectives and priority actions to bring about whole of system and whole of community changes, including for carers and diversity groups, sustaining good mental health and how we commission and deliver services.”
You are invited to tell us what you think about the draft plan.
To have your say visit, https://myvoice.brisbanenorthphn.org.au/-MHSPAOD-regional-planYou can complete a short survey, post comments to the forum, or send an email to myvoice@brisbanenorthphn.org.au
Consultation closes on Sunday 8 July 2018.
Following finalisation of the plan a range of partnership groups and working groups will develop detailed implementation plans and drive the delivery of actions.
Brisbane North PHN is hosting a series of focused workshops to help develop the regional plan for mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drug treatment.
Bringing together people with expertise and a stake or interest in the issue, each two and a half hour workshop will explore what is known about the issue, current challenges and actions that should be progressed through the plan.
Topics, dates and locations are outlined below. Please click on the corresponding link to register for whichever workshop you wish to attend. Please note places are limited, so get in quick.
Venue details
For workshops held at Lutwyche, the address is:
Brisbane North PHN Lutwyche Office, Suite SP020, Ground Floor, Lutwyche City, 543 Lutwyche Road, PO Box 845, Lutwyche, QLD 4030
For workshops held at North Lakes, the address is:
Level 2, 10 Endeavour Boulevard, (PO Box 929), North Lakes QLD 4509
For any enquiries, please email Program Support Officer Mary Smareglia on Mary.Smareglia@brisbanenorthphn.org.au or phone 07 3630 7350.
PHNs are tasked with helping reform the mental health system through the implementation of a stepped care approach.
But what is stepped care?
Brisbane North PHN has produced a short video and consultation paper to explain our approach to stepped care to date and to get your input.
At its heart, stepped care is about understanding the needs of individual consumers and providing them with services and supports which best match their level of need. Services need to be available across the spectrum from prevention and early intervention to mild mental illness through to those with severe and complex issues.
Recent commissioning of new mental health services has occurred within a stepped care approach and the development of the regional plan for mental health is happening within this framework.
We invite you to view the Stepped care video on this page and read our consultation paper which includes a number of questions. You can provide feedback to these questions through the online survey, discussion forum or by submitting written comment to myvoice@brisbanenorthphn.org.au
Deadline for feedback is 18th October 2017.
A vision for mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drug treatment services in North Brisbane and Moreton Bay is shaping up, thanks to the input of stakeholders like you.
The vision will form part of the regional plan being developed by Brisbane North PHN together with Metro North Hospital and Health Service.
Background
In March over 70 stakeholders, including people with a lived experience, helped develop a vision for a quality, coordinated and integrated mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drug treatment response in our community. A set of features were developed and actions suggested to move us from where we are now to where we want to be.
You now have the opportunity to provide feedback on the features and help further develop and prioritise actions.
Regional plan
Due to be released in October 2017, the Regional plan will set out a five year vision for the mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drugs treatment service systems, along with detailed action plans for the next two years. Developed jointly by Brisbane North PHN and Metro North Hospital and Health Service, in conjunction with people with a lived experience, consumers, carers and service providers, the plan will provide an agreed blueprint for service and system development in the coming years.
While still in development, the plan will likely include a number of sections including:
needs and context – overview of current health needs in North Brisbane and Moreton Bay, the current service response and the policy environment
system features and actions – our shared vision and the actions that will enable us to achieve it (the focus of this consultation paper)
lived experience participation – opportunities and support for people with a lived experience to participate policy, planning, delivery and evaluation
services planning statement – projected health need and required service response and priorities for service investment
performance indicators – how we will know if things are getting better
chapters – focus areas including: staying healthy and early intervention, children and young people, psychological services, people with severe mental illness, suicide prevention, alcohol and other drugs treatment, crisis services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Details regarding the vision, features and suggested actions is available in the consultation paper.
You can have your say, by completing our online survey, emailing your response to myvoice@brisbanenorthphn.org.au, or providing written comment on our consultation forum.
Deadline for written comments and the online survey is 9am Wednesday 14th June.
This summary covers the key themes from the symposia which along with all the feedback provided will inform the development of a regional plan for mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drug services in the North Brisbane and Moreton Bay region.
Acknowledging that not everyone could be in the room on the day, the PHN will continue to engage broadly with the sector, to gather feedback in tandem with this ongoing symposia series.
Following 12 months of consultation with the sector, we proposed a vision of what an integrated and effective system should look and feel like for consumers which is available in the document library. The first part of the symposia focused on testing the features of this proposed system.
Generally, participants agreed that the features identified were important, but that the way in which they were expressed needed further work, and additional features were suggested.
From discussions on the day, we also identified an additional feature, ‘A system that drives health creation to keep people healthy in their communities’ which was included for further discussion during the Symposia.
The feedback from this session was broad, but included the following suggestions:
The vision and features will be revised based the feedback received and we will seek ongoing input from participants and the broader sector on this revised vision over the coming months.
In the afternoon session, participants were asked to consider what needs to change in relation to each of the features so we can achieve an integrated and coordinated mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drugs health system in our region.
A summary of the key themes was presented back to the group on the day, and has been compiled below:
Across each of the features there are common themes and needs that must be addressed to achieve an integrated and coordinated mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drugs health system in our region. We will continue to work with the sector to understand these needs and identify the barriers to change which need to be addressed as we develop the regional plan.
The next steps of this process will be to release a discussion paper for consultation regarding the revised features of the system and key themes for change identified. We will also be undertaking consultation regarding the stepped care model and how this could work across our region.
Regular updates will be provided through our Recovery eNewsletter and the My Voice online engagement hub.
As well as the symposia, the PHN will be undertaking a variety of engagement activities focusing on particular streams of activity (e.g. children and young people, people with severe mental illness) over the coming months. These will be open to all and will feed into symposium two in June 2017.
You can comment or provide feedback on this article below, or if you would like further information or if you have any questions about this work please contact myvoice@brisbanenorthphn.org.au.
From 1 July 2016, PHNs were tasked with commissioning mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drug treatment services. As part of this, the Department of Health has asked all PHNs to develop a regional plan, which will identify needs and gaps, reduce duplication, remove inefficiencies and encourage innovation within the North Brisbane and Moreton Bay region.
The Big Thinking; Local Planning Symposia is one step in the process for developing the regional plan. The Agenda and Pre-reading for the Symposia are available in the document library.