WESTERN SYDNEY INTEGRATED REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH AND SUICIDE PREVENTION PLAN - 2020-2022 PUBLIC DOCUMENT
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WESTERN SYDNEY INTEGRATED REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH AND SUICIDE PREVENTION PLAN 2020-2022 PUBLIC DOCUMENT
ABOUT THIS REGIONAL PLAN Western Sydney Integrated Regional Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan The Western Sydney Integrated 3. Developing, integrating Regional Mental Health and Suicide and utilising eHealth systems Prevention Plan (the Regional Plan) to improve self-directed care, is an agreement about what has connectivity and collaboration to change, by when, how, and who between service providers. will be responsible for leading the change. The Regional Plan has a 4. Improving the access to and the three-year focus (2020-2022) to align quality of perinatal, infant, and child with the planning cycles of state mental health services. health organisations and that of 5. Ensuring adolescents and young WentWest, Western Sydney Primary people are supported through Health Network (WSPHN). the school years and during the The Regional Plan will guide transition to adulthood. collaborative governance, planning, 6. Implementing suicide and commissioning and monitoring self-harm prevention and crisis by the Western Sydney LHD and interventions tailored to the needs WentWest (WSPHN) as the lead of the community. agencies. 7. Attracting and retaining a The seven priority areas for committed and culturally competent action are: and accredited workforce. 1. Strengthening collaborative These priorities are consistent with governance and information sharing the Fifth National Mental Health for planning, commissioning and and Suicide Prevention Plan, the evaluating services. reforms outlined in the NSW State 2. Forging partnerships within and Health Plan, with a focus on a value beyond the health and social care based healthcare, the Living Well sectors that deliver better mental Mental Health Plan, the Western health outcomes for the Western Sydney LHD Services Plan, and the Sydney community across the life span. WentWest (WSPHN) Strategic Plan. P2
ABOUT THE WESTERN SYDNEY REGION The Western Sydney region (WSPHN residents or nearly 32,000 per year. and WSLHD) encompasses four Local Government Areas (LGAs) - Blacktown, Over 17,000 people identify as The Hills Shire, Parramatta and Indigenous with the largest numbers Cumberland - and is located in the residing in the Blacktown LGA (3.4% of outer western suburbs of Sydney. the total population). Covering an area of 790 km2, the The region is one of the most culturally boundaries of the catchment extend diverse in Australia with nearly 40 from Auburn in the East to Blacktown percent of the population born overseas in the West, and to the Hills in the in a predominately non-English North, encompassing an urban, outer speaking country. Nearly 7 percent of the urban and semi-rural population that population report speaking languages is now over 1,000,000 people. other than English, and many speak either little or no English. The highest The population is predicted to grow proportion of residents (13 percent) with by 67 percent in the 20 years 2016- low proficiency or use of English reside in 2036 - or an additional 635,000 the LGA of Cumberland. DEMOGRAPHICS AGE (ERP 2016) (ERP 2016) 50.47% MALE 0-4 49.53% FEMALE 5-18 478,750 MALE 19-64 469,843 FEMALE 65+ * ERP refers to the 2016 ABS Census data. P3
DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGIONAL PLAN This Regional Plan builds on the and undertaken by the Centre for national and data policy context, of foundations provided by the Western Mental Health Research at ANU the existing and current planning Sydney Health Partnership between and the revised WSPHN Needs documents, and actions identified by WSPHN, WSLHD and Sydney Assessment 2019-2022. governments relevant to the Western Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN), Sydney region. The Steering Committee has operating under the auspices of the examined a range of population and This Regional Plan is the first time Partnership Advisory Council with service data to identify existing and that a formalised plan has been a Memorandum of Understanding emerging needs and gaps in the developed by this State-funded and longstanding shared priorities, current spectrum of care. Through Local Health District and the including mental health. It has been consultations with consumers, Commonwealth-funded Primary developed more intensively over a 12 carers, primary care providers, month period commencing in early Health Network. This is an important the community managed mental 2019 and involved stakeholders in precedent in that it demonstrates health sector social care providers, a range of consultative processes. a commitment by both State and and state wide services and The Plan has taken into account Federal governments to empower academic partners, we have a better the consultations undertaken by regional governance and service understanding of what is working NSW Mental Health Commission in development. This Plan therefore does well, what needs improving, and what the mid-term review of the Living not displace existing plans approved needs to commence. Well Plan in 2019, the re-analysis by these two lead authorities but of psychosocial care services The Steering Committee has also seeks to define the critical areas of commissioned by WentWest (WSPHN) undertaken extensive reviews of the collaboration over the medium term. Figure 1: Inputs to the Western Sydney Integrated Regional Plan for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention National and State Population Needs and Policy Guidance Services Data Western Sydney REGIONAL PLAN Stakeholder Consultations Best Practice and (interviews, forums, surveys) Innovation P5
KEY POLICY GUIDANCE The development of this Regional Plan • NSW Strategic Framework and has been informed and guided by: Workforce Plan in Mental Health (2018-2022) • The Fifth National Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Plan and • Gaya Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Implementation Plan Declaration Implementation Guide • The NSW Value Based • WentWest (WSPHN) Strategic Plan Healthcare Framework (2016-2019) • Living Well – A Strategic Plan for • Western Sydney Local Health Mental Health in NSW (2014-2024) District Health Services Plan to 2026. and the July 2019 Mid-term Review • Strategic Framework for Suicide Prevention in NSW (2018-2023) Ten Common Strategic Mental Health Policy Issues: 1. Regional – collaborative 7. Engage and address the needs of governance – co commissioning special populations 2. Integrated, person centred, 8. Whole of community resilience stepped care – quality building 3. Recovery focused, trauma 9. Data – applied to decision informed making, shared and outcomes focus 4. Consumer, carer/family 10. Suicide prevention – alternatives involvement to ED and aftercare 5. Community care capacity …. All underpinned by a culturally 6. Improving physical health competent and networked workforce. P6
KEY TERMS & ACRONYMS Abbreviation DEFINITION Abbreviation DEFINITION AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare NGO Non Government Organisation ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics NMHC National Mental Health Commission AOD Alcohol and Other Drugs NSMHWB National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (ABS) ASR Age Standardised Rate np Data not available for publication CALD Culturally and Linguistically Diverse PAGES Providers of Australian Government Employment Services CMO Community Managed Organisations PBS Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme COAG Council of Australian Governments PCLI Pathways to Community Living Initiative DCJ Department of Communities and Justice (NSW) PCMH Patient Centre Medical Homes GP General Practitioner PHIDU Public Health Information Development Unit GOT IT Getting on Track In Time PMHC Primary Mental Health Care Services HCH Health Care Homes PHN Primary Health Network IAMHWS Integrated Atlas of Mental Health for Western Sydney SDH or SDOH Social Determinants of Health IRSD Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage SDR Service Delivery Reform LGA Local Government Areas SLA Statistical Local Area LHD Local Health District SA3 Statistical Area Level 3 MASH Making a Safe Home WFT Whole Family Team MBS Medicare Benefits Schedule WSLHD Western Sydney Local Health District MECSH Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting WSPHN Western Sydney Primary Health Network (WentWest) MNAT Mental Health Ambulance Team VBHC Value Based Health Care MHC NSW Mental Health Commission of NSW P7
KEY DEFINITIONS Carer Person-centred Trauma Informed A person with lived experience of Care Care caring for someone with a mental health problem. This can be a family Person-centred care places the person Trauma Informed Care (TIC) is a member or friend – paid or unpaid. in context, over and above bodily treatment framework supported by an systems or diseases, and places this organisational structure that involves Community concept at the centre of healthcare. Person-centred care respects understanding, recognising, and responding to the effects of all types of Managed individual diversity and enables personal control of healthcare. damaging life events and experiences. TIC is an approach to service delivery Organisations based on an understanding of the Community managed organisations Special ways trauma affects people’s lives, their service needs and service (CMOs) are private, not-for-profit organisations that may be managed Populations usage. It incorporates principles of safety, choice, collaboration, trust and by a board of representatives and/or Populations which are either empowerment. elected community members. underrepresented in accessing Consumer care or have higher risk or poorer health outcomes than the general Value Based Referring to a person with a lived population. It includes some Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Healthcare experience of mental illness and/or communities, Aboriginal and Torres (VBHC) recovery who has used or uses Strait Islander people, children and treatment, rehabilitation and/or young people, people with chronic VBHC means continually striving to support services. health conditions and veterans. deliver care that improves: 1. health outcomes that matter to Integrated Care Social patients, Integrated care is a way of working Determinants of 2. experiences of receiving care, that enables care to be provided in a way that reflects the whole of a Health 3. experiences of providing care, and person’s health needs; from prevention 4. effectiveness and efficiency of care. Social, environmental and economic through to end of life, across both factors that play a significant role in physical and mental health, and in shaping the health and wellbeing of partnership with the individual, their individuals and populations. carers and family. The individual experiences care as though provided by a single unified health system. The aim is to have care centred around the person, rather than organisations, to help people with complex needs get the care they need. To transform to a more person-centred model of care, changes are required at organisation, service and care delivery levels. P8
MEASURING PROGRESS What gets measured, how and by whom A critical factor in achieving the The KPIs listed here are, in the majority intentions set out in this Regional of cases, required for reporting Plan, will be our commitment to what against national data sets and are gets measured, how we measure, expected to be available at a regional and who has a lead responsibility level during the timeframe of this for each measure. In addition to Plan. Some additional indicators have reporting to Commonwealth and been added to ensure measurement State governments, the WSLHD, against regional priorities is routinely WSPHN and SCHN Boards, we undertaken. Details on the methods will routinely report to the Western and tools used for measuring progress Sydney community to ensure we are will be available from the WentWest transparent and accountable to them, (WSPHN) website following a co- and we help to build a community design process with community and of support for better mental health stakeholders to determine the priority outcomes across the region. measures / KPIs. DOMAIN & INDICATOR LEAD REPORTED KPI DOMAIN 1. CONSUMER AND CARER REPORTED OUTCOMES OF SERVICE USE – QUALITY, IMPROVEMENT, TIMELINESS, SUITABILITY Proportion of consumers & carers with positive experiences of service WSPHN Bi-annual (all commissioned services) Proportion of consumers & carers with positive experiences of service WSLHD (all public MHS) Bi-annual Rate of involuntary hospital treatment WSLHD Annually Rate of seclusion & restraint in acute units WSLHD Annually KPI CLUSTER 2. HEALTH STATUS Life expectancy & mortality gap for people with mental illness WSPHN Annual Proportion of children developmentally vulnerable in the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) WSLHD Three-yearly Proportion demonstrating a positive change over time Percentage of population with very high psychological distress WSPHN Annual KPI CLUSTER 3. SERVICE ACCESSIBILITY Population access to mental health care WSPHN Annually Mental health related ED presentations WSLHD Annually Referral Wait Time for Primary Mental Health Care services WSPHN Bi-annually KPI CLUSTER 4. SERVICE INTEGRATION Readmission rate to hospital WSLHD Annually Percentage of new clients to Primary Mental Health Care services WSPHN Bi-annually Post hospital discharge community care WSLHD Annually Measurement of Integrated care across Western Sydney ^ WSPHN Annually KPI CLUSTER 5. WORKFORCE AVAILABILITY, SKILLS AND SATISFACTION Planned vs actual FTE/vacancy rate WSPHN Annually Competency in team-based care & collaboration* WSPHN Annually Workforce satisfaction WSPHN Annually Notes: ^ This is based on the Rainbow Model of Integrated Care Measurement Tool (Valentijn, 2016). See Appendix 1. * This would be based on a standard set of agreed competencies for team-based care and collaboration. Appendix 2 contains the National Indicators as set out in the Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan. P9
COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE Underway and core to our way of working WentWest (WSPHN), Western Sydney professionals work together. The health • Scaling collaborative efforts to Local Health District (WSLHD) and system needs to pursue right care, right realise system wide impacts - We plan Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network time, right place with the consumer as to reform the Western Sydney health (SCHN) have jointly commissioned an active member of the care team. system, by thinking as ‘one system’ services into areas of need for more and working accordingly. We will work than eight years. We are proposing that over the coming within a shared regional framework years, to combine our efforts and seek of objectives, principles and strategies Currently there are several joint State and Commonwealth support to applied flexibly in and with local collaboratives including: further scale this work. Rather than communities, creating diverse place focus on one model of care, the Boards based and sustainable developments. • Partnership Advisory Council (PAC) and Executives of WentWest (WSPHN) - supports collaboration and integration, and WSLHD will focus on whole system • Strategically focus on the levers and focuses on shared strategic priority reforms to the health system. of change - Our approach considers areas for the SCHN, WSPHN and macro, meso and micro reforms WSLHD, effectively demonstrating the THE AIMS OF COLLABORATIVE required to realise short, medium and virtual ‘pooling’ of resources to deliver COMMISSIONING long term impacts, but also represents specific models of integration. the next step toward our mutual long 1. Collectively deliver ‘one Western • Service Delivery Reform (SDR) cross Sydney health system’ which is value- term aims with a specific focus on sector initiative which aims to improve based and patient-centred. change management and ‘changing service delivery to vulnerable families/ hearts and minds’, orienting the system populations. 2. Deliver right care, at the right time, toward our new operating paradigm. and in the right place – in community This will necessarily involve trialling • Integrated Chronic Care and Health and primary care wherever possible. and evaluation of changes to financing Care Homes - supports communication – notably general practice financing, to and integration between the hospital, 3. Improve equity in health, reducing build capability and enhance recognition GPs and patients. health risks, promote healthy lifestyles of value-based care provision. and respond to social determinants. • After Hours Programs, Aboriginal • Being realistic about what can be Health Promotion, Students as KEY FEATURES OF OUR PROPOSED achieved but being scalable to other Lifestyle Activists (SALSA), and the APPROACH: cohorts - Our initial plans cover two implementation of Thrive@5 (first 2,000 • Moving from input and activity specific cohorts – patients requiring days) within the suburb of Doonside. to outcome-based commissioning value-based urgent care and patients - Reforming Western Sydney’s ‘joint at risk showing symptoms of chronic Although joint commissioning is commissioning’ of service models heart conditions. This will include well embedded into the way of doing and funding of inputs/activities to mental health consumers and we things in Western Sydney, WentWest collaborative commissioning of activity have begun scoping additional cohorts (WSPHN) and WSLHD recognise a more and incentivising outcomes and value which could benefit from a collaborative cohesive and systematically coordinated across providers. This would include joint commissioning approach including approach is necessary to enable accountability for outcomes and agreed Aboriginal health, diabetes, mental collaboration and deliver care that is mechanisms for sharing benefits. health, frailty and vulnerable families. consistently value-based, person- centred, and can be delivered at scale • Consolidating and enhancing • Engagement of consumers and across the region. governance - Our Person Centred clinicians - A co-design approach was Co-commissioning Group (PCCG) applied with consumer and clinical WSLHD, the SCHN and WentWest governance includes a consolidated councils over many years to develop (WSPHN) want to remove organisational and enhanced governance model for these models, however, much of the and professional barriers, alleviate the broader Western Sydney collaboration. thinking needs further development siloed, fragmented nature of care and While these efforts will initially focus to be updated and customised to the pursue our mutually shared vision of on collaborative commissioning current Western Sydney context. We ‘one Western Sydney health system’ in within the health system, we will be plan to test more extensively during order to provide true value-based and looking to build on Western Sydney’s a joint development phase, including person-centred care. This requires us Service Delivery Reform program, working with local community providers to reimagine how primary, community, which already includes the Stronger – linking Community Health, General acute and social care is delivered. Communities Cluster (Justice and Practice and NGO services to build Health system pressures have never ‘Their Futures Matter’), Treasury, Police Patient Centred Medical Home (PCMH) been greater, and we need to think and Education Clusters, to address the clusters in connected Health Care differently about how providers and social determinants of health. Neighbourhoods (HCNs). P10
WESTERN SYDNEY COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE Delivering this Regional Plan will be a joint effort, with commitment from partners across our region. Our commitment to a One Western Sydney Health System has already commenced. The Patient Centred Co- Commissioning Group (PCCG) Executive is established and the first two sub- committees (Value-Based Urgent Care and Cardiology in Community) are evolving. A sub-committee for progression of our Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Regional Plan will be developed as part of our implementation and delivery plan. ONE WESTERN SYDNEY HEALTH SYSTEM WESTERN SYDNEY SYDNEY CHILDREN’S WENTWEST LOCAL HEALTH HOSPITALS (WSPHN) DISTRICT NETWORK BOARD BOARD BOARD PARTNERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL PATIENT CENTRED CO-COMMISSIONING GROUP (PCCG) EXECUTIVE The Patient Centred Co-commissioning Group (PCCG) will report into the Partnership Advisory Council, which in turn, reports into the three local health system Boards. P11
PATIENT CENTRED CO-COMMISSIONING GROUP (PCCG) EXECUTIVE HEAD AGREEMENT MOH – WSPHN / WSLHD WSLHD Director WSLHD WSPHN Director WSLHD WSLHD CE WSPHN CEO Medical Services Consumer/ WSPHN WSPHN Executive Primary Care Director Allied (Co-Chair) (Co-Chair) or Emergency Patient GP Leader GP Leader Director of Transformation Health Physician Operations & Integration Workstreams / Enablers Value Based Urgent Care (sub-committee) Cardiology in Community (sub-committee) Project Management Commissioning Data, Analytics & eHealth PCCG Change Lead Provider Agreements (examples) Single Point General WSLHD WSPHN Evaluation Access Practices Provider Provider Key features of the PCCG Executive patient representation to ensure a includes: co-design approach and continual validation that the services are • Co-Chairs: CE, WSLHD and CEO, delivering on consumer/patient WSPHN. expectations. Sub-committees are • Members: WSLHD clinicians (2), responsible for driving the design and WSPHN GP Leaders (2), consumer, implementation of their respective WSLHD Executive and WSPHN model utilising PCCG enablers. Executive. The following diagram demonstrates Sub-committee will be co-chaired expected membership of each by a WSLHD clinician and a sub-committee, including key WSPHN GP Leader. Each sub- partners which will be integral to the committee will have consumer/ realisation of benefits. P12
PATIENT CENTRED CO-COMMISSIONING GROUP (PCCG) SUB COMMITTEE STRUCTURE VALUE BASED URGENT CARE WSPHN / WSLHD WSLHD WSLHD WSPHN WSLHD General Manager Western Sydney Network Director WSPHN GP Leader Divisional Medical Westmead & of Emergency GP Leader Consumer Director - Acute Auburn Hospitals (Co-Chair) Medical Training Medicine (Co-Chair) WSPHN WSLHD WSPHN Key PCCG Director Primary Director Integration Medical Director Implementation Care & Enablers, Immediate Care staff Transformation & Integrated & (Partner (as required) Integration Community Health Organisation) PATIENT CENTRED CO-COMMISSIONING GROUP (PCCG) SUB COMMITTEE STRUCTURE CARDIOLOGY IN COMMUNITY WSPHN / WSLHD WSLHD Digital Health CRC WSLHD WSLHD Professor of Medicine WSPHN Director of Executive Director Director HITH, & Academic Director GP Leader WSPHN Integration & Research and Nursing and Westmead Applied (Co-Chair) GP Leader Enablers, Director of Digital Midwifery & Clinical Research Centred Governance Integrated & Capacity | Consumer (Co-Chair) Community Health WSPHN WSLHD Key PCCG Director Primary Director Integration WSPHN Implementation Care & Enablers, General Practice staff Transformation & Integrated & Pharmacist (as required) Integration Community Health WSLHD and WentWest (WSPHN) have There will also be ongoing regular agreed on the Lead of each enabler consultations with key stakeholders including: Program Management including WentWest Clinical Advisory led by WSLHD; Commissioning led Council, WSLHD Clinical Governance by WSPHN; and Data, Analytics and Committee, and WentWest and eHealth led by WSPHN. WSLHD Consumer Advisory Councils. Communication plans (internal, public We expect that each enabler will include and through media channels), with key at least one seconded person from the messages and consideration of “when non-lead organisation to enable the people need to know what” and “for free flow of information between the what purpose” will be vital to success. organisations. The project will also build in key points The PCCG Change Lead will drive where feedback can be received from program and change management stakeholders, whether that be through and, in consultation with the Co-Chairs, follow up surveys (post accessing the assign clear accountabilities for tasks. model of care) or public surveys to Current or new working groups and gauge public awareness of the Value focus groups will be created as required Based Urgent Care service and the to drive actions and outcomes. Cardiology in Community service. Clinical leadership will be a core WHAT THIS MEANS FOR MENTAL element of each sub-committee, HEALTH IN WESTERN SYDNEY with primary care and acute care In simple terms moving to a Person representation. Centred Co-commissioning Group COMMUNITY AND CONSUMER in mental health will see shared ENGAGEMENT investments to build a more integrated service system that is Each sub-committee will include easier for consumers and carers to consumers with direct links to navigate and get the suite of services community. they need to live well. P13
KEY PARTNERS Bonding the health sector In pursuing the vision of a mentally provider of mental health, community healthy and inclusive Western Sydney support and disability support community, it is essential that a broad services to people with a lived coalition of health and non-health experience. Services include supported organisations are brought together. In accommodation, daily living support, the health sector WentWest (WSPHN) recovery programs, community and Western Sydney LHD will work to connection and suicide prevention or build robust bonds across the partners postvention (aftercare). Families and in health care to ensure pathways to and carers of people with a lived experience from health care for those with mental are supported through the family and health needs are clear, well known and carer programs run by community effective. Tackling the root causes of managed organisations. mental distress and many mood and substance disorders requires that we • Private providers including build bridges to partners beyond health psychiatrists, psychologists and care to tackle the social determinants of allied health professionals, such ill-health and that we sustain coalitions as dieticians, physiotherapists or to ensure those families and individuals counsellors, may also be part of the with complex needs get the hand up care team. they need. • Private hospitals, some In the health care sector we need specialising in mental health treatment, strong bonds between Consumers, supplement services for people who their carers and families, those with a need hospital admission. lived experience of mental illness and/ or suicidal behaviour - key partners in • Health promotion, prevention the design, implementation, operation, and early intervention programs and monitoring of services, and: may be offered in different sectors, by local governments and public and • State Hospital, Mental Health and national, state and/or local community Community Health services providing organisations (e.g. beyondblue, R U OK? a wide spectrum of mental health care and NSW Cancer Council). services from early prevention through to acute hospital based care. • Alcohol and other Drug services may be offered by Health as well as • General Practitioners funded by CMOs. These include some residential the Australian government through rehabilitation services, some of which Medicare and consumer co-payments, offer targeted support to Aboriginal and provide comprehensive primary health Torres Strait Islander people. care, a high proportion of total mental health care, and will be involved in • Peak bodies play a role in shared care of people with a lived community managed sector experience of mental ill-health. development, capacity building in community managed organisations, • Community Managed and in advocacy for consumers Organisations (CMOs) are a key and carers. P14
KEY PARTNERS Building bridges beyond health • Early childhood, children and • Police have a role in protecting young people’s services, child the community and preventing and protection and out of home care responding to crime. In the mental services led by the Department of health context, police may be first Communities and Justice (DCJ) responders during a mental health address the needs of children and crisis being experienced by a person families. They may identify concerns in the community. that require mental health support and partner in providing a holistic • Legal, statutory and/or advocacy response to the child and/or family. services – government agencies, courts and tribunals may be involved • Education NSW and non-public in supporting and advocating for the education providers. School years rights of people with a lived experience are key periods when developmental, on an individual or systemic level. This conduct and mental health disorders includes Mental Health Commission first appear. Ensuring schools are NSW, the Mental Health Review equipped to support the social and Tribunal, Legal Aid Commission, NSW emotional learning of every child and Civil and Administrative Tribunal, are able to support those that are at Juvenile Justice, and Public Guardian. risk and have need for care is important. • Volunteer community organisations help to undertake • Post-secondary education and local community capacity building employment services may assist activities. Groups such as Rotary, people with a lived experience to Lions and LandCare groups can play access education, vocational training a prominent role in supporting better and work. This includes TAFE, Western mental health for the community. Sydney University, private vocational training providers, Providers of • Local government plays a Australian Government Employment critical role in urban space design, Services (PAGES) and others. environmental protection and community services, and facilities like • Aged Care services, funded by the libraries, parks and playgrounds, and Australian government and user fees, supporting community events that are able to provide support to people celebrate living in Western Sydney. aged 65 and over or Indigenous people aged 50 and over in their own homes • Business sector of Western or in aged care facilities. Sydney wants a mentally healthy workforce for now and the future. • Ambulance services, as first Business is increasingly aware responders, play a vital role in field that mental illness is a real threat assessment, screening and treatment to business continuity and offers for those experiencing a mental partnership opportunities for both health crisis. WSLHD and WentWest (WSPHN). P15
THE LIVING WELL MID TERM REVIEW WESTERN SYDNEY In mid 2019 the NSW Mental Health priorities’ are summarised here. Commission, in collaboration with WSLHD and WentWest (WSPHN), A series of ‘graphic scribes’ were undertook community consultations produced to capture the interactions to review the progress made in and feedback gathering through a the region on the implementation workshop held at Homebush in July of the Living Well Strategic Plan. 2019. These are available at https:// The key messages in relation to nswmentalhealthcommission.com. ‘what’s working well’, ‘what are au/living-well-agenda/living-well- the challenges’ and ‘what are the mid-term-review/western-sydney. KEY MESSAGES FROM THE NSW MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION’S 2019 MID-TERM REVIEW WHAT’S WORKING WELL IN WESTERN SYDNEY WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES? Awareness: Awareness of mental health, and diverse communities; Visibility of services: Variation between services, same service but People are more aware of services different maze, lack of linkage; Mental health sector is a maze Co-design and peer workforce: Greater number of consumer led Access: Young people who need high levels of care and can’t get it; programs and the peer workforce NDIS long waiting times Diversity: Culturally linguistically diverse programs Workforce: Workforce to meet demands; Student development; Quality of employees; Workforce gaps Outreach: More assertive outreach in the community and less Funding: Length of funding, limited contracts admissions Community engagement: More authentic engagement of carers and families in service design and planning WHAT THEN, ARE THE PRIORITIES? Early intervention: Invest in good community care that has demonstrated success in early intervention; Early invention in the education system Funding: Funded service to point people towards help; Simplified tendering process – system standardised questions; 10-year funding priority Accessibility: Navigation of services Community based services: Accessible community based services to avoid hospital, respite and rehab; Stable housing Workforce: Training and remuneration for workers; Training for non-mental health services; Training for mental health police Co-design: Access across each government area P16
THEMES FROM THE CONSULTATIONS WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS FOR THE REGIONAL PLAN WentWest (WSPHN) and WSLHD • Collaborative Commissioning – undertook further consultations with an emerging process. consumers and carers, and a range of commissioned service providers • Improved interagency and stakeholders, in late 2019 and cooperation; improved relationships early 2020 to provide input into the now embedding. finalisation of the Regional Plan. The • Early adoption of innovation – e.g. workshops and online survey used an youth navigator model. appreciative enquiry method to capture views of the strengths and what has • Collaboration between General changed and improved in recent Practice and Allied Health. years through the reform efforts. The emerging opportunities, the policy and • Sharing of information. systems issues placing constraints and challenges on the community and then • Improved psychosocial services in finally the data and information gaps the community. were identified. From this, a set of eight issues were seen as the priorities for OPPORTUNITIES reform under the Regional Plan. Using • Address the unmet needs of their words, we have summarised the special populations. feedback here. STRENGTHS OF WESTERN SYDNEY • LHD reform agenda and progress REGION – communication and collaboration to be strengthened. • WentWest (WSPHN) and WSLHD working together as agents for change. • Teacher and school community collaboration. • Service Delivery Reform (SDR) – involves all human services. Regular • Expand the GP-psychiatry liaison meetings of the Mental Health service. Working Group. • Greater cohesion and cooperation • The Integrated Care Management between housing and health – need Group convened by DCJ, with a to work together to keep consumers designated lead agency for every client. in public housing. • The MASH Program – 28 families with savings of $2.3m. • Suicide prevention programs. P17
Themes from the consultations with our stakeholders for the Regional Plan (continued) POLICY AND SYSTEM ISSUES • High density living – need to see more ‘5 Star Green Community’ • The link between service planning developments (see Fairwater). and delivery, using data to inform. Data not yet fully driving service planning at • Clear referral pathways – schools to local level. community and to health services. Youth navigation program a positive step. • There is a fundamental disconnect in the rhetoric of ‘integration’ and • Safe & Well for all schools. ‘regional’ and the way many programs are funded. Shared care still dependent • Clear signposts for the community on individual provider/HCP; payment – who to reach out to/go to if you need systems divide not connect. support. • Needs to have greater emphasis on • Cultural support and knowledge technology – the need to have systems – updated, accessible, relevant; CALD to allow sharing of client data/care groups using specific Facebook sites. plans (with consent); shared metrics on outcomes; My Health Record not proving • Auburn – Healthy Communities to be fully useful at this point. initiative. • Early childhood is not seen as • Workforce component – emphasis a priority. Need to have whole of life on Multi-Disciplinary Teams; more approach. Day care services are capacity to partner. overwhelmed with demand. • Data must move to focus on • Funding – this is THE elephant in outcomes, in all settings. the room. Funding based on the needs • NDIS: lack of sustainable funding of Western Sydney for community for mental health providers; huge risks managed funds. for clients transitioning and those now • Social determinants are absent needing to access NDIS packages. – housing, education, employment, environment. • High rates of non-engagement of young people not in education, • Inadequate focus on prevention employment training – one in seven – universal social and emotional young people 16-21 years. wellbeing missing. • Absence of employment services • Whole of community resilience – no with health care; some linkage with one is addressing this. headspace but it’s small. P18
Themes from the consultations with our stakeholders for the Regional Plan (continued) DATA AND SERVICE GAPS • Continuing issues around stigma among service providers – cultural Data Gaps and toward AOD and Mental Health • Health issues – HIV+ and Hepatitis consumers. C infection numbers and growth. • Stable public housing - provision • Socio-economic issues – data not & access. linked to health data (enough) nor at • Inadequate knowledge of what ‘granular level’ (i.e. SA 2). services are available for the community • Data on domestic violence; child from GPs and medical staff. protection; children in out of home care PRIORITY NEEDS - WHAT MATTERS (including the levels of trauma and MOST poor health outcomes). • Developing alternative sources of • Struggling and vulnerable families funding – the need to look for strategic – need for data on non-attendances at partners beyond government and school, numbers of families using crisis reduce ‘silos of funding’. food banks and housing, number of families under extreme financial stress, • Children – prior to schooling; where and who can offer support. the early schooling with Social and Emotional Learning K-12 plus • Multicultural community data specialist programs for children with - including separating refugee data higher needs like GOT It! – actual migration – planned vs non-planned and numbers impacted • The need to tackle social by trauma; plus, the number of determinants and risk factors – 5 Star temporary visitors. Green Communities: Healthy Eating, Healthy Action. • On self-harm – when GPs do the treating, there won’t be data captured • The need to ensure young people by the ED presentation data. have access to employment, education and/or training. • Drug-related hospital presentations. • Youth in out of home care – lack Service Gaps of flexibility with CAMHS; greater • Gap in comorbid services – AOD- access (timely) to MH services needed; MH (complex) treatment. ‘Intensive Community Care for Youth’ (DCJ coordination). • Prevention, early intervention targeted services. • Under 18 yo homeless - not funded to support these clients; complexity not • CALD / refugee service provision. addressed in funding at present. • Impact of high density living – poor • Workforce development and health outcomes, lack of community training – must mirror the community space, alienation of community. it serves. • Tailored programs to address high • Research and evaluation – better rates of smoking among some groups data to inform service planning and including mental health consumers. monitoring of outcomes. P19
IMPROVEMENTS IN RECENT YEARS (2015-2019) STRUCTURAL AND SYSTEMS WSHIU portal to monitor the health status of the community, identify health Collaborative Governance needs, develop programs to reduce risk, foster policies which promote WentWest (WSPHN), Western Sydney health, plan and evaluate the provision Local Health District (WSLHD) and of healthcare and manage and Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network implement change. (SCHN) have jointly commissioned services into areas of need for more Integrated Mental Health Atlases of than eight years. Currently there are Western Sydney, 2014 and 2019 several joint collaboratives including the Service Delivery Reform (SDR), WentWest (WSPHN) was the first Partnership Advisory Council (PAC) regional health authority in Australia to and Integrated Chronic Care and apply an internationally validated tool to Health Care Homes. the geo-mapping population of mental health needs and available services. Collaborative Commissioning also This Atlas uses a standard classification underpins a number of specific system, the “Description and Evaluation programs including Western Sydney of Services and Directories in Europe After Hours Programs, Aboriginal for long-term care” model (DESDE- Health Promotion, Students as LTC), to map the services. The use Lifestyle Activists (SALSA), and of a common language has allowed the implementation of Thrive@5 us to compare the pattern of mental in Doonside. health care provided in Western Sydney, Western Sydney Health Intelligence other regions across Australia and Unit (WSHIU) with regions in Europe and elsewhere. We continue to develop and use the The WSHIU supports and contributes ‘Mental Health Atlas’ to enhance our to the new shared services in the understanding of the functional mix of region providing an agreed and capacity (or spectrum and capacity of expanding range of services, including services) in the region and compare this information production, knowledge to international benchmarks using a management, web-based reporting standard taxonomy. and capacity building. The 2019 Integrated Atlas of The WSHIU works to support health Psychosocial Mental Health services professionals and system partners showed significant changes to the to make informed decisions towards capacity and location of these services better health and social care outcomes from 2014 and showed a closer by using the evidence base of health. alignment between needs and A wide variety of stakeholders use the service provision. P20
Improvements in Recent Years (continued) Suicide Prevention Research Low-intensity services provide public Collaboration and Systems Mode information, self-help strategies, digital and phone-based mental health The suicide prevention research services as well as group, peer and collaboration led by the University GP support. The services include The of Western Sydney, Sax Institute, Shed in Mount Druitt, Western Sydney and the Brain and Mind Centre at Recovery College, and the Connections the University of Sydney developed Helpline. Medium intensity services a systems modelling approach are face-to-face services and include to community-based suicide psychological services and clinician- prevention and suicidality attempts. assisted, digital mental health services, The collaboration has developed and GP support. High intensity services a Dynamic Modelling approach to are multi-agency care including suicide prevention that incorporates coordinated multi-agency support, the Lifespan Model from the Black psychiatric support, mental health Dog Institute. WentWest (WSPHN) nurse services, acute care and hospital- will act as a local implementation based services. partner for the research collaborative enabling the systems modelling The Principles and Characteristics of approach to be tested in real the Stepped Care approach are shown life scenarios and enable our in Appendix 3. commissioning framework to draw Primary Care – Psychiatry Liaison on the evidence of effectiveness and Services Model of Care (PC-PLS) impact for suicide prevention. This will address the current fragmented This service aims to improve both nature of suicide prevention physical and mental health outcomes activities and provide a rigorous in people with mental health issues, approach to commissioning of through better integration of care suicide prevention services. and increased access to psychiatric expertise and psychosocial support IMPROVED ACCESS TO AND within primary care settings. WentWest QUALITY OF SERVICES (WSPHN) has engaged a Lead Agency to employ two full-time psychiatrists Stepped Care to support up to 20 general practices across the region to target a range WentWest (WSPHN) commissions a of priority population groups. The number of mental health services psychiatrists provide consultant liaison within Western Sydney informed support to GPs and brief intervention to through a comprehensive Needs people accessing PC-PLS, increasing Assessment. These services are access to professional mental health structured within a ‘Stepped Care’ services in the primary care setting. approach to help a range of people A unique feature of this PC-PLS with low to high mental health needs, model is the layering of support, to with many of these services being ensure people with a diverse range free and easy to access without the of support needs can be supported need of a referral from a health comprehensively. The PC-PLS also professional. The Stepped Care place emphasis on providing a approach connects primary mental person-centred and recovery-oriented health care with Western Sydney approach. community members and helps health professionals, including GPs, The preliminary evaluation of the PC- deliver the right care by determining PLS has shown significant improved the service level required. health outcomes and a good quality P21
Improvements in Recent Years (continued) Gold Card Clinics aims to strengthen integrated mental health care for pregnant The Gold Card Clinics (GCCs), are women, mothers, their infants and clinical services offered through families throughout NSW. SwOPS WSLHD’s Department of Psychology. provide telephone, telehealth and They provide a brief psychotherapeutic online support. Consultations aim to intervention for people aged 18-65 provide rapid response to support and years old in the WSLHD catchment facilitate access to specialist Perinatal area who have recently experienced a Mental Health Assessment. SwOPS- mental health crisis. The intervention mh is based in Redbank House, focuses on providing timely, accessible Westmead Hospital. and evidence-based psychological intervention for people who frequently Specialist Perinatal and Infant Mental present to EDs or Inpatient Services Health Services (PIMHS) aare for in the context of psychosocial crisis pregnant women and mothers with with emotion dysregulation, suicidal severe and complex mental illness ideation or self-harming behaviour. with infants up to two years of age. PIMHS provides coordinated care for The intervention provides an initial the mother’s mental health needs, three sessions that focus on identifying parenting capacity, and parent-infant and addressing psychological and relationship. It also provides hospital behavioural factors that contributed in-reach as well as in-home support to the crisis. An additional session for to women and their families, reducing carers, partners and family members separation of mothers from their is included in the intervention where families wherever possible. NSW Health needed. When nearing the end of the are planning two new Mother Baby intervention, referrals to appropriate inpatient units with one to be based at services or ongoing psychological the Westmead Hospital campus. therapy are discussed between the GCC team and consumers. Child, Adolescent and Youth Services The GCCs forms part of the Project ED Navigator Air for Personality Disorders implementation in WSLHD Mental The Child &Youth (C&Y) Mental Health Services and works in a Health Emergency Department recovery oriented, trauma informed (ED) Navigator program is a way. There are four Gold Card Commonwealth funded pilot initiative Clinics operating across WSLHD at between WSLHD and WentWest Cumberland, Parramatta, Merrylands (WSPHN). It commenced in April 2018 and Blacktown. The GCCs take at Westmead Hospital and has utilised referrals from the Parramatta or a Child and Youth trauma informed Blacktown Acute Mental Health teams approach to acute intervention in the and aim to offer an appointment to ED for children and young people suitable clients within 1-3 working experiencing acute mental health days of referral. crises with complex needs. This innovative project is aimed at providing While a relatively new service, the right care at the right time at the the clinical outcomes from the right place and thereby linking young GCC service indicate that a brief people to appropriate supports in psychological intervention has a the community and preventing non- significant positive impact on reducing urgent re-presentations to the ED self-harming behaviours, suicidality, whilst attempting to promote suicide emotion dysregulation, paranoid prevention and minimise risk of self- perceptions of others, and negative harm. The impact of the program perceptions of self. has exceeded expectations and there has been a significant reduction in Improved Perinatal and Infant Mental re-presentation rates. The service has Health been extremely well received by young The Statewide Outreach Perinatal people, their families/carers and the Service for mental health (SwOPS-mh) general community. P22
Improvements in Recent Years (continued) U12s Community Mental Health mental disorders. PEIRS is a multi- Service disciplinary service that encompasses prevention, mental health promotion, Emotional and/or behavioural early identification and intervention, symptoms can cause significant relapse prevention, recovery and disruptions in family life and school. research initiatives. The PEIRS Team The U12s Community MHS aims to covers The Hills, Cumberland and address these needs. All referrals are Parramatta LGAs. triaged, with an individual assessment of the child and the family context ENABLE provides assertive intervention in which that child resides with for young people aged 12 -24 years appropriate treatment. The also who are at risk of hospital admission provide specialist transition to school or ED presentation by offering intensive programs include the ‘Getting Ready outreach, assertive crisis intervention, for School’ and The Early Intervention risk management and short-term ‘Now Ready for School’. The U12s support (up to 8 weeks). service is based at Auburn, Redbank (Westmead) and the Rupertswood SPECIALIST SERVICES FOR Hub (Mount Druitt). VULNERABLE FAMILIES Got It! The Whole Family Team (WFT) Got It! is a school-based specialist The WFT is a specialist child-focused, mental health early intervention family-centred service for children, program for young children in young people, families and carers, Kindergarten to Year Two with where parental or carer mental health disruptive behaviour disorders and/or drug and alcohol issues co-exist and their families. Got It! teams with significant child risk of significant work closely with local school harm concerns. The WFT primarily staff, children, parents and other works with families referred by Family local service providers to deliver a and Community Services (FaCS) to multilevel school-based intervention address the impact and associated conducted across two school trauma of parental mental health and/ terms. An initial parent and teacher or drug and alcohol concerns and aims screening for emerging conduct to enhance family functioning, increase problems, leads to voluntary the safety of children and all family participation in a 10-week targeted members, and improve health and clinical program for children with developmental outcomes for children identified problems and their and young people. parents/carers. It is supported The Alternate Care Clinic (ACC) by whole-of-school intervention, specialist assessment and referral ACC based at Redbank (Westmead) for individual needs. offers a psychiatric clinic for children and young people in out-of-home-care BEAT, PEIRS and ENABLE (aged 0-17 years) in the region. The The Blacktown Early Access Team clinic seeks to improve connections to (BEAT) provides specialist clinical services for these children and youth mental health services to youth aged through more direct access for FaCS 12-24 years with severe mental illness. referrals and to improve the continuity The team covers the Blacktown Local of care through individually tailored Government Area. treatment and support plans. The ACC offers a range of therapeutic options The Prevention Early Intervention including individual and group work Recovery Service (PEIRS) team is with children and young people, family a child and adolescent community work and group training with foster service offering a range of clinical carers, and systemic intervention and interventions to young people aged 12- training for residential care workers and 25 years affected by the recent onset of members of FaCS. P23
Improvements in Recent Years (continued) PATIENT CENTRED HEALTH CARE HOMES The Patient Centred Medical Home (PCMH) model plays a pivotal role in achieving improved health of populations, enhanced patient experiences, health care cost reductions, and better support for health professionals – also known as the Quadruple Aim. The PCMH model continues to evolve as the potential future of primary health care internationally. The principles that underpin PCMH are universally relevant and fundamental to strong primary care. WentWest launched the first stage in the PCMH journey in 2014, partnering with 25 trailblazing local general practices, to support PCMH principles applied within the Australian context. Over the years, local practices continue to join this journey. National and local experience demonstrates that practices with a quality improvement focus, who adopt and work through the 10 Building Blocks of High Performing Primary Care, develop a greater capacity in both their business and clinical models, to sustain transformation, in turn shaping the practices of the future. P24
PRIORITY OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS OBJECTIVE 1. STRENGTHENING 1.4 Share data across primary, • Through forums like the Service COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE community and acute sectors to drive Delivery Reform (SDR), ensure a AND INFORMATION SHARING FOR and inform evidence-based service coordinated cross sector response PLANNING, COMMISSIONING AND development, monitoring and evaluation. supports the most vulnerable EVALUATING SERVICES individuals and families and support • Establish systems that drive forward initiatives to improve equity of access to 1.1 1.1 Develop a whole-of-system data sharing and move towards shared services for these groups. (regional) approach to incentivise analysis and interpretation, creating an local autonomy and accountability informed community of providers and • Strengthen the collaboration with for delivering patient-centred and consumers designing a modern system Housing, the community housing sector outcome-focused mental health care in built on good evidence and knowledge and the rental market operators to build the community. of outcomes. more accommodation capacity and more stable accommodation for mental • Continue with the Living OBJECTIVE 2. FORGING PARTNERSHIPS health consumers and their families. Well reforms and leverage the WITHIN AND BEYOND THE HEALTH commissioning of Commonwealth AND SOCIAL CARE SECTORS THAT • Trial a ‘root cause coalition’ focused funded mental health services in DELIVER BETTER MENTAL HEALTH on refugee populations to put in place the Western Sydney, enabled through OUTCOMES ACROSS THE LIFESPAN pathways to participation and successful national mental health reform. transition to living in Western Sydney. 2.1 Continue to build a One Western • Collaborate in service networking Sydney health and social support and 2.3 Progressively transition care from and care arrangements to improve care service system. acute settings to primary/community service integration between WSLHD based settings, wherever appropriate mental health inpatient and • Rebalance investments for an to do so, through collaborative community teams, GPs, primary care integrated community and inpatient commissioning arrangements, building providers and CMOs. mental health service that facilitates a mentally healthier and more resilient timely access and recovery. Western Sydney community. 1.2 Across all services, shift the focus of non-clinical and clinical support • Work with the CMOs to ensure • Support the Auburn Healthy services and projects from outputs in-reach into acute inpatient units is Communities initiative, exploring to outcomes. integrated into models of care and successful themes with potential to connected to the Multi-Disciplinary expand across our region. • Ensure in all commissioning, service Team for seamless transitions for providers have clearly defined outcome consumers back to the community. • Implement mental health measures to routinely report against. promotion and mental health literacy • Support the ongoing transformation initiatives that engage and empower • Continue to build on our capacity in of general practice to Patient Centre the community in self-care, reducing evaluation and research, measuring the Medical Homes (PCMHs) and ensure that discrimination in all its forms and taking impact of everything we do and publish/ the physical health needs of mental health action to help others experiencing share our contribution publicly. consumers are addressed effectively. mental distress and mental ill-health. 1.3 Provide regular, clear communication • Invest in a stepped-care primary care • Engage with local government on the implementation of this Plan and model supported by a GP-psychiatry and urban developers to ‘design in’ other mental health reforms to the liaison service and tele-psychiatry. mental health and wellbeing to new Western Sydney community. developments or redevelopments. • Develop shared care protocols, • Establish a time limited co-design common functional assessment 2.4 Strengthen the Patient Centred Working Party to develop the priority tools and processes, defined referral Medical Home model (PCMH) through indicators relevant to the community. pathways and consumer centred care an enhanced team-based care model to plans across primary, community and prevent, intervene early, support care • Ensure through digital and tertiary health care services. co-ordination and continuity of care. traditional reporting methods, the Western Sydney community is kept 2.2 Develop coalitions with partners • As the PCMH model expands informed on the progress of mental to address root causes of mental across general practice, ensure team- health reform and the performance of distress, mental illness and suicidal based care always includes principles of the local mental health services. behaviour. good mental health support. P25
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