The plan for translating Tasmania’s overarching mental health reform strategy – Rethink 2020 – into action has been updated for the year ahead. The Rethink 2020 Implementation Plan for 2022-23 contains a range of actions in new and existing priority areas, including: establishing a network of Head to Health services across Tasmania releasing the new Tasmanian Suicide…
Mental Health Week will take place from 8-16 October, incorporating World Mental Health Day on 10 October. This year’s theme is Awareness, Belonging, Connection. The Mental Health Council of Tasmania has chosen orange as the official colour for Mental Health Week in Tasmania because “it is warm, and inviting, and has a positive and uplifting…
Primary Health Tasmania has launched the Learning Hub – a website providing educational resources and tools for primary healthcare providers. By using the Hub, Tasmanian primary healthcare providers can access a range of resources developed by Primary Health Tasmania as well as other Primary Health Networks and peak bodies. This includes: webinars audio recordings publications…
Primary Health Tasmania is preparing to open a tender for the delivery of the Australian Government’s care finders program, which aims to help older people who have significant difficulty accessing aged care services and are at risk of ‘falling through the cracks’. We will be holding three information sessions (each with the same content but…
Are you living with dementia, or caring for someone who has dementia? Primary Health Tasmania is working with Primary Health Networks in Victoria to understand: your experiences with your local doctor (GP) what information and health and support services you have found helpful or you have needed, but not been able to find. We will use…
Remedy Healthcare’s contract with Primary Health Tasmania for the delivery of low intensity mental health and wellbeing services will end once existing clients have completed their support program. As a result, Remedy has stopped taking new referrals into these telephone and online coaching services (MindStep and Healing Minds). Despite successful clinical outcomes in the MindStep…