❓ Mr. Ripper questions the Minister for Mental Health regarding accommodation facilities for people with mental illness, their capacity, occupancy rates, monitoring mechanisms, and compliance with self-assessment procedures. The Minister provides a detailed response referencing tabled papers and outlining monitoring processes.
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(1) Will the minister list all the Government facilities and publicly funded non-government facilities that provide accommodation specifically for people with mental illness?
(2) What was the total funded accommodation capacity of these facilities, for each of the financial years 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 and to date in 2011–12, and how many people are currently on waiting lists for this type of accommodation?
(3) Will the Minister provide the following information for each facility listed in (1):
(a) what proportion of the funded accommodation capacity is currently occupied;
(b) what mechanisms are in place to monitor the extent to which funded services have actually been supplied and to ensure that required standards of service have been met;
(c) where these mechanisms involve self-assessment what independent checks are implemented to ensure the accuracy of these self-assessments; and
(d) what action has the Minister taken in cases where funded facilities have failed to comply with self-assessment procedures?
(2) What was the total funded accommodation capacity of these facilities, for each of the financial years 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 and to date in 2011–12, and how many people are currently on waiting lists for this type of accommodation?
(3) Will the Minister provide the following information for each facility listed in (1):
(a) what proportion of the funded accommodation capacity is currently occupied;
(b) what mechanisms are in place to monitor the extent to which funded services have actually been supplied and to ensure that required standards of service have been met;
(c) where these mechanisms involve self-assessment what independent checks are implemented to ensure the accuracy of these self-assessments; and
(d) what action has the Minister taken in cases where funded facilities have failed to comply with self-assessment procedures?
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Answered
16 May 2012
Responded by
Minister for Mental Health
Response time
56 days
1-3a) Please see tabled papers [.....]
b) The Mental Health Commission (MHC) contracts with Non Government facilities. The contracts stipulate what is to be provided and this is addressed through the contract monitoring processes of the MHC. The Chief Psychiatrist, until January 2012 undertook care standards monitoring of the accommodation facilities against the WA developed
Service Standards for Non Government Providers of Mental Health Services.
The MHC will continue monitoring under the
National Standards for Mental Health Services
(NSMHS) (2010). The revised NSMHS will also apply to Non Government community mental health services.
(c) The Chief Psychiatrist's Non Government Organisation (NGO) monitoring program, one process of which was Self-Assessment, includes other processes such as reporting under
Hospitals (Licensing and Conduct of Private Psychiatric Hostels) Regulations 1997
, the management of complaints and progressively comprehensive (on site) reviews of Private Licensed Psychiatric Hostels (11 completed) and NGO's providing supported accommodation services (3 completed). A sampling of evidence from Self-Assessments was examined for accuracy of reporting by the NGO with increasing evidence of the Self-Assessment reporting.
(d) In the four rounds of progressive Self-Assessment implemented by the Chief Psychiatrist no agency failed to comply with the Self-Assessment procedures.
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b) The Mental Health Commission (MHC) contracts with Non Government facilities. The contracts stipulate what is to be provided and this is addressed through the contract monitoring processes of the MHC. The Chief Psychiatrist, until January 2012 undertook care standards monitoring of the accommodation facilities against the WA developed
Service Standards for Non Government Providers of Mental Health Services.
The MHC will continue monitoring under the
National Standards for Mental Health Services
(NSMHS) (2010). The revised NSMHS will also apply to Non Government community mental health services.
(c) The Chief Psychiatrist's Non Government Organisation (NGO) monitoring program, one process of which was Self-Assessment, includes other processes such as reporting under
Hospitals (Licensing and Conduct of Private Psychiatric Hostels) Regulations 1997
, the management of complaints and progressively comprehensive (on site) reviews of Private Licensed Psychiatric Hostels (11 completed) and NGO's providing supported accommodation services (3 completed). A sampling of evidence from Self-Assessments was examined for accuracy of reporting by the NGO with increasing evidence of the Self-Assessment reporting.
(d) In the four rounds of progressive Self-Assessment implemented by the Chief Psychiatrist no agency failed to comply with the Self-Assessment procedures.
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