Posted in Uncategorized2 on May 11th, 2011 No Comments »
11 May 2011 – TAMHSS
We welcome the extra investment in mental health announced in the Budget last night. This extra funding has been allocated as set out in the following table. This new injection of funding reportedly takes mental health from 7% to 8% of the health budget. This is a real improvement but it [...]
Posted in TheMHS on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
TAMHSS has responded to the mental health Blueprint in a recent blogpost:
This Blueprint is very timely. It aims to be transformative asking for real (though not enough) amounts of money for improving and enhancing Australia’s mental health services. The authors quite rightly state: “the Blueprint does not make specific recommendations regarding other key services which [...]
Posted in Latest Mental Health News Links, TheMHS on Jul 4th, 2010 1 Comment »
TAMHSS (Transforming Australia’s Mental Health Service Systems) has just launched and have created a blog to help engage with mental health consumers, carers and advocates to drive change.
What is TAMHSS?
• Provides an independent forum to increase and sustain the momentum for reform
• Encourages the Australian community to participate in the transformation of the
Australian mental health [...]