Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 65
Mental Health
The Mental Health Service provides acute and
extended care across the age range through its
clinical streams of Child and Adolescent, Youth,
Adult, and Older Persons specialist services.
Inpatient services are located at the Missenden
Unit at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, at Concord
Centre for Mental Health co-located with Concord
Repatriation General Hospital and at Thomas
Walker Hospital (Rivendell).
Inpatient Mental Health Services are provided
at The Professor Marie Bashir Centre (PMBC)
at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and Concord
Centre for Mental Health on the Concord General
Repatriation Hospital campus. Services are
provided across the lifespan, including Perinatal,
Child and adolescent, adults and older people and
specialist tertiary and quaternary referral services.
Specialist community mental health services
are co-located with other health services at
Redfern, Camperdown, Marrickville, Croydon,
and Canterbury.
The Mental Health Service works closely in
partnerships with other clinical streams and
facilities and government and non-government
agencies such as Emergency Departments,
general hospital inpatient wards, community and
hospital-based paediatrics, Drug Health Services,
Community Health Centres, Non-Government
Organisations, PHNs, and private healthcare
providers, Department of Education, Housing
providers, NDIS providers, Department of Justice
and Communities.
Year in Review 2021–22
Highlights:
• Continued to support the COVID-19 pandemic
response.
• Commenced the Safe Haven Program, Towards
Zero Suicides. Safe Haven is a non-clinical
drop-in program for people experiencing
suicidal thoughts, emotional distress or social
isolation.
• Updated the WorkSafe Guardian Community
Safety Tool, allowing staff to activate a duress
alarm through their work phone or enabled
wearable device. WorkSafe Guardian provides
staff with on demand 24/7 safety monitoring
with welfare check-ins, safety and medical
alerts and location tracking when help is
needed.
• Launched the first public outpatient Ketamine
Clinic at Professor Marie Bashir Centre for
treatment resistant depression following a
multi-centre NHMRC funded clinical trial.
• Awarded the inaugural Steve Douglas
Education Scholarships.
• Published the textbook “Longer-Term
Psychiatric Inpatient Care for Adolescents,
A Multidisciplinary Treatment Approach”
describing the model of care of the
Walker Unit.
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