(2011) Evaluation of the Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative

3. Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative
• The provision of a direct service to clients with a serious mental illness and substance use
problems with a focus on developing and modelling good practice. This may be through
providing a limited direct service and intensive support/consultation to case managers on
specific cases
The following table identifies the metropolitan team that the Rural Clinicians are attached to, area
serviced and ‘host organisation’ (the area mental health service from which the clinician operates).
Table 3-2: Rural Dual Diagnosis Clinicians
Team name
SUMITT Dual
Diagnosis
Team
Linked host
organisation
Grampians Psychiatric
Services, Ballarat Health
Service
Bellarine Mental Health
Team, Barwon Health
Area covered
Total area
(km 2 )
Total
population
Capacity of
team
(eft)
Grampians 48610 214,733 1
Barwon 6241 252,678 1
South West Health Care South West /
Glenelg
22865 102,505 1
Nexus Dual
Diagnosis
Service
Goulburn Valley Health -
Adult Community
Psychiatry
Bendigo Health Care
Group
Mildura Base Hospital,
Ramsay Health
Goulburn Valley 16504 143,300 1
Loddon 36874 252,490 1
Northern Mallee 22087 51,590 1
Eastern Dual
Diagnosis
Service
Northeast Health,
Wangaratta
North East
Hume
23771 117,146 1
Southern Dual
Diagnosis
Service
Latrobe Regional Hospital Gippsland 41353 247,693 2
The primary activities of the rural dual diagnosis clinicians largely emulate the work of the metropolitan
teams. Although the numbers of organisations supported by rural clinicians are smaller than the
numbers of organisations supported in the metropolitan regions, the geographical area rural clinicians
must cover is far greater, as shown on the following map.
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