500,000 Australians Live with Mental Illness but Don’t Qualify for the NDIS. A Damning New Report Says They Need More Support

500,000 Australians live with mental illness but don’t qualify for the NDIS. A damning new report says they need more support

The Productivity Commission has found governments’ agreements to improve mental health care and reduce suicides are ‘not fit for purpose’.

National mental health agreement deemed 'not fit for purpose' - ABC listen

Australia's national plan to improve mental health and prevent suicide is "not fit for purpose" and needs to be re-written, according to a new report by the Productivity Commission.

Centre the voices of lived experience in a new National Mental Health Strategy: call from Productivity Commission

Introduction by Croakey: A new National Mental Health Strategy centring the voices of people with lived and living experience across the mental health system is one of the draft recommendations made by the Productivity Commission following a review of the […]

PRESS RELEASE: Mental health reform must start with people, not bureaucracy – Get The Word Out

Chief Executive of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association Limited, Tony Farley, said the Productivity Commission’s interim report of its review of the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention was a ‘critical wake-up call’ for the Commonwealth, States and Territories. ‘Maintaining the status quo while expecting different outcomes reflects a system stuck in its ways, […]

Gov’ts taken to task on unfit mental health agreement - Medical Republic

The Productivity Commission has savaged the ‘alienating, inadequate, ill-informed and under-resourced' mental health and suicide prevention system.

Mental health reform must start with people, not bureaucracy

Chief Executive of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association Limited, Tony Farley, said the Productivity Commission’s interim report of its review of the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention was a ‘critical wake-up call’ for the Commonwealth, States and Territories. ‘Maintaining the status quo while expecting different outcomes reflects a system stuck in its ways, holding back progress and damaging trust – Australians deserve …