Page 145 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 14 February 2018

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(2) further notes the ACT Government focus on investing in evidence-based mental health and suicide prevention services, with $23.8 million provided for mental health initiatives in the 2017-18 ACT Budget, including:

(a) $2.9 million to establish a new Office for Mental Health to coordinate the delivery of mental health services;

(b) $13.8 million to deliver new rehabilitation beds at the Dhulwa Mental Health Unit; $5.3 million to invest in a range of targeted programs and services to improve the mental health of Canberrans in the community, including Headspace and the Detention Exit Outreach Program; $1.8 million to reduce the incidences of suicide in our community through funding for the Black Dog Institute’s Life Span Suicide Prevention Program; and

(c) expansion of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Consultation and Liaison Service at TCH to provide services seven days per week;

(3) further notes the activity underway through the Territory-wide Health Services Framework to plan for the delivery of health services to:

(a) meet current demand and future population growth;

(b) deliver better coordinated, integrated care which is patient-centred;

(c) create specialty service centres to coordinate across the continuum of care;

(d) leverage the expertise of health stakeholders and the community; and

(e) develop a framework for patient care navigators who assist patients with chronic and complex health conditions; and

(4) calls on the ACT Government to continue its significant infrastructure investment and planning taking place to ensure we have the right services to meet demand and population growth now and into the future, including through:

(a) $95.3 million for infrastructure improvements and maintenance through the Upgrading and Maintaining ACT Health Assets project;

(b) opening of Canberra’s first dedicated rehabilitation hospital in 2018 with $16.1 million in the 2017-18 Budget to ensure it is open and ready to care for patients from 2018;

(c) establishing the new $500 million Surgical Procedures and Interventional Radiology and Emergency Centre at TCH;

(d) $3.3 million to undertake a scoping study into the health service and infrastructure requirements for outpatient and hospital-based care on the north side;

(e) opening the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm to provide support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by drug and alcohol;

(f) $70 million expansion of the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children;

(g) $14 million for new nurse-led walk-in Centres in Gungahlin and the Weston Creek region, as well as a health centre in the inner north;

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