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Table 12A.37<br />
Table 12A.37<br />
State/territory mental health<br />
services (c)<br />
Medicare-funded services (d)<br />
NSW Vic Qld WA SA Tas ACT NT Aust<br />
1.6 1.1 1.8 1.8 1.7 0.9 1.8 2.2 1.5<br />
Private Psychiatrists 1.3 1.5 1.2 1.0 1.6 1.0 1.0 0.4 1.3<br />
General Practitioners 2.0 2.2 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.6 0.7 1.9<br />
Clinical Psychologists 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.2<br />
Allied Health 0.6 0.8 0.6 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.6<br />
All MBS funded services 3.2 3.6 2.8 2.5 3.1 2.6 2.5 1.1 3.1<br />
(a) Estimates are preliminary <strong>only</strong> and based on unique counts of individuals receiving care from the<br />
particular services within the year. An individual is <strong>only</strong> counted once regardless of the number of<br />
services received. An individual could have received a Medicare-funded and a state/territory mental<br />
health service in the given year.<br />
(b) Jurisdictions differ in their capacity to provide accurate estimates of persons receiving services due to<br />
the lack of unique patient identifiers, or data matching systems. NSW, Tasmania and SA data are not<br />
derived using a unique patient identifier or data matching approaches.<br />
(c)<br />
Percentage of population receiving clinical mental health care,<br />
2006-07 (a), (b)<br />
Person counts for state and territory mental health services are confined to those receiving one or more<br />
contacts provided by ambulatory mental health services. All service contacts are counted in defining<br />
whether a person receives a service, including those delivered ‘on behalf’ of the consumer.<br />
(d) All Medicare funded data are based on year of processing, as provided by the Australian Government<br />
Department of Health and Ageing and billing data maintained by Medicare Australia. A significant<br />
component of the data includes services provided under the Australian Government Better Access to<br />
Mental Health Care initiative, which commenced on 1 November 2006.<br />
Source : AHMC (2008) Council of Australian Governments National Action Plan for Mental Health 2006-<br />
2011: Progress Report 2006-07 , Report prepared under the auspice of the Mental Health<br />
Standing Committee of the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council,<br />
www.coag.gov.au/reports/docs/AHMC_COAG_mental_health.doc (accessed 9 October 2008).<br />
REPORT ON<br />
GOVERNMENT<br />
SERVICES 2009<br />
HEALTH<br />
MANAGEMENT<br />
ISSUES