Primary Health Tasmania’s Mental Health Continuum of Care Project aims to improve Tasmanians’ experience of and outcomes from the mental health services we commission.
It involves gathering information and feedback about the current service model to help inform a new commissioning model focused on improved coordination and integration.
Other Primary Health Networks have successfully transitioned to continuum of care models, achieving improvements in streamlined care.
Which services are affected?
Our focus will initially be on the following types of services we commission:
low intensity services (for people with mild mental illness or at risk of mental illness)
short-term trauma counselling
short-term psychological interventions
services for adults with complex and severe mental illness.
Inclusive development
Primary Health Tasmania is committed to an inclusive development process for the new commissioning model.
We believe the best outcomes are achieved when the development of new models is collaborative.
Along with our external consultant Scyne, we will be engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, including those with lived experience. This will ensure our approach is not only comprehensive but also holds true to the experiences of those impacted by our services.
Through targeted consultations, we are seeking feedback from service providers, healthcare professionals, service users, and other people who have firsthand experience with mental health services.
We will draw on the insights gathered to develop the new service commissioning model.
This will occur in two distinct phases:
Phase 1 (May 2025): Understanding the current state of mental health service provision in Tasmania
Phase 2 (June 2025): Testing and refining a new service commissioning model.
Get in touch
If you have any questions about this project, or would like to get involved, please send us an email.
