Annual Report 2005-2006 - Forensicare

Strategic objectives
• Provide high quality, relevant and timely advice
to Government.
• Provide high quality, efficient and effective support
services across the organisation.
• Identify service development opportunities and submit
appropriate proposals to Government.
• Increase community awareness and understanding
of forensic mental health issues.
Challenges
• Manage the increasing demand for services without
compromising the quality of services and care.
• Ensure that forensic mental health is sufficiently
resourced to meet the continued and increasing
demand for services from the criminal justice and
general mental health systems.
• Fully implement program changes to meet the full
spectrum of offender need.
How we plan to succeed in 2006-2007
Our plans include –
Meeting service demand –
• Review organisation-wide practices to optimise the
organisation’s ability to respond to increasing service
demand.
• Subject to the requisite planning approvals, develop
18 additional secure inpatient beds to increase capacity
of Thomas Embling Hospital on an interim basis.
• Work collaboratively with an identified public mental
health service and the Department of Human Services
as required, to contribute to the planning of a combined
secure extended care facility to build on the
commitment by Government to ‘increase bed capacity
at Thomas Embling Hospital’.
• Continue to pursue the development of a more rational
and effective mental health service for men and women
in the Victorian prison system.
• Continue to advocate for the expansion of the
Community Forensic Mental Health Service.
Develop service sustainability –
• With the approval of Monash University, establish a
Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, in the School
of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine,
in a partnership arrangement between Forensicare and
Monash University.
• Offer the Certificate in Forensic Behavioural Science and
the Post Graduate Diploma in Forensic Behavioural
Science on an ongoing basis, commencing in the 2007
academic year.
Quality improvement initiatives –
• Continue to participate in the development and
implementation of benchmarking initiatives with other
Australian jurisdictions.
• Commence preparations for the Australian Council
on Healthcare Standards organisation-wide survey in
August 2007, encompassing the introduction of EQuIP
Version 4.
• Consolidate and further develop organisational
(including financial) risk assessment and management
systems, including new organisational governance
compliance requirements.
Information Technology –
• Under the auspice of the Information Management /
Technology Council Committee, develop an Information
Technology Strategic Plan.
• Subject to funding, continue the redevelopment of
information technology based management systems
for operational, planning and research purposes.
Consolidating and Strengthening Clinical Programs –
• Complete the training of all clinical staff in offending
issues and dual diagnosis.
• Finalise the implementation of the patient/client
assessment protocols.
• Complete the implementation of identified program
developments.
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