Mental Health Information Archive
The material below has been archived and no longer
reflects current policy. Some links may not work. The documents may be
of historical interest.
Area Mental Health Services
The protocol for review of area
mental health services 1997 - 2003 (PDF file 197KB)
(Archived October 2004)
Assault
Responding to Allegations of Assault - June
1995 (Program Management Circular) (Archived
22 August 2005)
Assessment orders Diagnosis,
assessment and treatment orders: About your rights - March 2007 (Large print
version) (Patient
Rights) (Archived October 2008)
CAMHS Forum 14 September 2005 "Partnerships
to Better Outcomes" (Archived May 2006)
Carers Information
Caring together:An action
plan for carer involvement in Victorian public mental health services
- July 2005 (PDF file 224KB) (Archived August
2006)
Information for families and carers
of People with a Mental Illness - July 2002 (PDF file 217 KB) (Archived
7 April 2004)
Caring together - An action plan for carer involvement in Victorian
public mental health services
Client Records
Holding Client Records: Department
of Human Services Policy for Psychiatric Disability Support Services
- December 1999 (Program Management Circular) (Archived
22 August 2005)
Consumer participation
Evaluation of Consumer Participation
in Victoria's Public Mental Health Services (1999) Final Report (PDF
file 156KB) (Archived 17 December 2007)
Attachments to the Final Report
(PDF file 253KB) (Archived 17 December 2007)
Community Treatment Orders
Community Treatment Orders Discussion
Paper - February 2003 (PDF file 167 KB) (Archived
24 July 2005)
Community Treatment
Orders Guidelines - November 2001 (PDF file 308KB) (Archived
30 November 2005)
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Disability Support
Standards for Psychiatric Disability Support
Services - November 2000 (Archived 16 June
2004)
Electroconvulsive
therapy - About your rights - December 2004 (PDF file 74KB) (Patient
Rights) (Archived May 2007)
Families
In Partnership: Families, Other
Carers and Public Mental Health Services - October 1996
(PDF file 41KB) (Archived 23 November
2004)
Forensic patients - About
your rights - December 2004 (PDF file 81KB)
(Patient Rights) (Archived June 2007)
Forensic patients
(remand and interim disposition order) patients: About your rights April
2007 (Large print version) (Patient
Rights) (Archived October 2008)
Funding Mental Health 2003/04 (Archived July 2004)
Mental Health Annual Outlook
2003/04 - June 2003 (Archived
July 2004)
Mental Health Three Year Outlook
2003/04 to 2006/07- June 2003 (Archived July
2004)
Mental Health Modelled Budgets
2003/04 - June 2003 (Archived July 2004)
Mental Health Activities and Performance
Measures June - 2003 (Archived July 2004)
Conditions of Funding -
Mental Health Services June - 2003 (Archived
July 2004)
Funding Mental Health 2004/05 (Archived July 2005)
Mental Health Annual Outlook 2004/05
- July 2004 (Archived July 2005)
Mental Health Modelled Budgets
2004/05 - July 2004 (Excel file 700KB)(Archived
July 2005)
Mental Health Performance Measures
- Relationship between performance
measures and agency 2004 - July 2004 (Word file 97KB)(Archived
July 2005)
- New mental health performance
indicators 2004 - July 2004 (Word file 45KB) (Archived
July 2005)
Conditions of Funding - Mental Health
Services - July 2004 (Word file 64KB) (Archived
July 2005)
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General Practitioners
Sharing the Care: General Practitioners
and Public Mental Health Services - June 1996: Overview (PDF file 33KB)
(Archived January 14 2008)
Health Status and Outcomes in Victoria’s
Mental Health Services (Department of Human Services, 1999)
(Archived July 2004)
Hospital orders: About your rights
Hospital
order patient - About your rights - December 2004 (PDF file 81KB)
(Patient Rights) (Archived May 2007)
Hospital
order patient - About your rights - July 2008 (PDF file 110KB)
(Archived September 2008)
Hospital
order patient - About your rights - April 2007- Large print version
(PDF file 123KB) (Archived September 2008)
Changes to hospital orders
under the Sentencing Act 1991 - October 2006 (PDF file 90KB)
(Archived September 2008)
In Partnership: Families, Other
Carers and Public Mental Health Services - October 1996 (PDF file 41KB)
(Archived 23 November 2004)
Involuntary Patients
Amendment to the Mental Health Act
Regarding Involuntary Patients - December 1999 (Program Management
Circular) (Archived 22 August 2005)
Involuntary patients:
About your rights - May 2006 (Patient Rights)
(Archived February 2008)
Involuntary patients:
About your rights - May 2006 (Large print version) (Patient Rights)
(Archived October 2008)
Continuing treatment
(section 12A-12D) involuntary patients: About your rights - March 2007
(Large print version) (Patient
Rights) (Archived October
2008)
Language
Provision of Language Services - April
1996 (Program Management Circular) (Archived
September 2006)
Legal Issues
Review of the Health Services
(Conciliation and Review) Act 1987 Discussion Paper - September 2000
(PDF file 249KB) (Archived September 2004)
The Health Services (Conciliation and Review) Act 1987 (the Act) established
the Office of the Health Services Commissioner. In September 2000 the
Department of Human Services released a discussion paper on the review
of this Act and invited public comment on the issues raised in the paper.
These amendments have been made by the Health Services (Conciliation
and Review) (Amendment) Act 2001, which was proclaimed on Tuesday 19
March 2002. The Amendments of the Act became operational from Monday
25 March 2002.
Proposed amendments to
the Mental Health Act 1986 - June 2005 (Program Management Circular)
(Archived 8 August 2005)
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Major non-psychiatric treatment
- About your rights May - 2006 (PDF file 66KB) (Patient Rights)
(Archived May 2007)
Major non-psychiatric
treatment - About your rights - December 2004 (PDF file 66KB)(Patient
Rights) (Archived May 2007)
Major Non-Psychiatric
Treatment and Major Medical Procedure - July 2000 (Patient Rights)
(Archived 3 January 2003)
Mental Health Update Newsletters Dec 1999
to March 2002 (Archived July 2004)
Mental Health Act
Amendments to the Mental Health Act
1986: Information for Emergency Departments - November 2004 (PDF file
31KB) (Archived 8 August 2005)
Proposed amendments to the
Mental Health Act 1986 - June 2005 (Program Management Circular)
(Archived 8 August 2005)
Admendments
to the Mental Health Act 1986 - August 2005
(Program Management Circular )(Archived
7 November 2005)
Training Resource Material
(Archived 5 September 2005)
Non-custodial
supervision orders: About your rights - June 2007 (Large print version)
(Patient Rights) (Archived October 2008)
Non-Psychiatric Treatment/Medical Procedure
- January 2000 (Program Management Circular) (Archived
12 December 2002)
Orientation
Welcome to Mental Health
- Your guide to Victoria's specialist clinical services - January 2005
(PDF file 1.950KB) (Archived October 2006)
Outcome Measuremment
Improving Services through Consumer
Population Outcome Measurement in PDRSS (PDF file 219KB) (Archived
14 December 2004)
Psychiatric Disability Rehabilitation
and Support Services Measuring Consumer Outcomes: Guidelines for PDRSS
(PDF file 107KB) (Archived 14 December 2004)
Readme: PDRSS Outcome Measurement Tool
(PDF file 33KB) (Archived 14 December 2004)
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Partnerships to Better Outcomes: 14 September
2005 (Archived 14 September 2006)
On Wednesday 14 September
2005 over 200 people representing more than 70 organisations, carers
and consumers attended the Mental Health Branch Forum, "Partnerships
to Better Outcomes, Supporting the mental health of children and young
people" held at Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre. Representatives
from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), their invited
service partners and other stakeholders including consumer and carer
participants were present)
Patients Without Leave
Apprehension of Patients Without Leave - April
1997 (Archived 8 August 2005)
PDSS
Standards for Psychiatric Disability Support
Services - November 2000 (Archived
16 June 2004)
Private sector psychiatry - Collaboration between Public and Private
Sector Psychiatry
Collaboration between Public and
Private Sector Psychiatry (PDF file 483KB) (Archived
January 14 2008)
Collaborative
Service Arrangements: Private Psychiatrists and Public Mental Health
Services - June 1996 (PDF file 26KB) (Archived
January 14 2008)
Psychosurgery - About your
rights - December 2004 (Patient
Rights) (Archived March 2007)
Psychosurgery
- About your rights - April 2007 (Large print version) (Patient
Rights) (Archived October 2008)
Quality
The Mental Health Quality Incentive Strategy
1999/2000 (Archived September 2004)
Consumer and Carer Surveys
1999/2000: (Archived 12 September
2005)
Consumer and Carer Satisfaction
Survey – Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services: Summary
Report 1999/2000 (PDF file 830KB) (Archived
12 September 2005)
Consumer and Carer Satisfaction
Survey – Adult Mental Health Services: Summary Report 1999/2000
(PDF file 817KB) (Archived 12 September 2005)
Consumer and Carer Satisfaction
Survey – Aged Persons Mental Health Services: Summary Report 1999/2000
(PDF file 805KB) (Archived 12 September 2005)
Restricted involuntary treatment orders
and restricted community treatment orders - October 2006 (PDF file 211KB)
(Chief Pyschiatrist's Guidelines) (Archived
24 October 2008)
Restricted involuntary
treatment orders: About your rights - March 2007 (Large print version)
(Patient Rights) (Archived
October 2008)
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Security
patient - About your rights - December 2004 (PDF file 80KB)
(Patient Rights) (Archived May 2007)
Security
patient - About your rights - March 2007 (Large print version)
(Patient Rights) (Archived October 2008)
Service Delivery - The Framework for Service Delivery
The
Framework for Service Delivery - April 1994 (PDF file 169KB)
(Archived July 2004)
This Framework was released in April 1994 and set the blueprint for
the redevelopment of mental health services across the State of Victoria
Standards for Psychiatric Disability Support
Services - November 2000 (Archived 16 June 2004)
Statewide, Specialist and Acute Adult Inpatient
Mental Health Services Review Call for Submissions - December 2000
(Archived 27 December 2000)
Suicide Prevention
Youth Suicide Prevention Kit - August
1996 (PDF file 76KB) (Archived November 2003)
Telepsychiatry
Victorian Telepsychiatry Program
(Archived 14 March 2007)
Evaluation of the Victorian Telepsychiatry
Program - Executive Summary (October 1998) (Archived
14 March 2007)
Telepsychiatry A Seminar
for Mental Health Staff 8 December 2000 Department of Rural Health,
University of Melbourne Shepparton (Archived
14 March 2007)
Transport
Authority to Transport Without a Recommendation
- June 1996 (Program Management Circular) (Archived
22 August 2005)
Undergraduate Nursing Education
in Victoria - Psychiatric Knowledge, Attitudes and Skill Requirements
for Beginning Level Division 1 Nurses - July 1998 (PDF file 247KB)
(Archived February 2007) - describes
core educational requirements for graduating nurses to undertake first
level practice in the field of psychiatry in six areas of knowledge. In
each of these areas the basic skill requirements in terms of knowledge,
attitudes, and behavioural skills or outcomes are outlined.
Welcome to Mental Health
- Your guide to Victoria's specialist clinical services - January 2005
(PDF file 1.950KB) (Archived October 2006)
The Working Together Strategy - A Quality
Improvement Initiative - February 1999 (PDF file 91KB) (Archived
17 December 2007)
Youth Suicide Prevention Kit - August
1996 (PDF file 76KB) (Archived November 2003)
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