Key performance indicators for Australian public mental health services
This report proposes a set of key performance indicators for use in Australia's public sector mental health services that is based on the National Health Performance Framework and linked to the strategic directions of the National Mental Health Plan 2003-2008.
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- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Executive summary
- 1. Background and context
- 2. Developments in Australian mental health performance monitoring
3. Developments in performance indicators for mental health services- 4. Design issues
- 5. Measuring mental health across the national health performance domains
- 6. Next steps in implementing performance indicators for Australian mental health services
- Appendices
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Report of Performance Indicator Drafting Group
Information Strategy Committee
AHMAC National Mental Health Working Group
Information Strategy Committee Discussion Paper No. 5
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NMHWG Information Strategy Committee Performance Indicator Drafting Group (2005). Key Performance Indicators for Australian Public Mental Health Services. ISC Discussion Paper No.6 Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra.Disclaimer
Papers published as part of the Information Strategy Committee Discussion paper series are not meant to be prescriptive and do not represent any official Government, National Mental Health Working Group, or Information Strategy Committee position. They are intended to stimulate discussion on a range of mental health information development and outcome measurement issues. The views expressed in these papers are not necessarily the views of the Australian Government or any particular State or Territory.Previous ISC Discussion Papers
- Discussion Paper No. 1 (Out of Print) – Morris-Yates, A & Andrews, G (1997) Local Area Information Systems for Mental Health Services: General Principles and Guidelines
- Discussion Paper No.2 (Out of Print) – Report of the National Indigenous Mental Health Data Workshop (1998)
- Discussion Paper No. 3 – Christensen H, Griffiths KM, Evans K, (2002) e-Mental Health in Australia: Implications of the Internet and Related Technologies for Policy
- Discussion Paper No. 4 – Eagar, K. Burgess, P. Buckingham, B. (2003) Towards National Benchmarks for Australian Mental Health Services
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"The challenge for the mental health sector is clear. The use of performance indicators and the movement towards benchmarking is becoming routine in the Australian health care system. The challenge for the mental health sector is to develop a set of meaningful performance measures and to develop the culture and the processes so that benchmarking becomes the norm"Eagar et al (2003) Towards National Benchmarks for Australian Mental Health Services. Information Strategy Committee Discussion Paper No.4, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra