❓ Ms. Guise asks the Minister for Health for an update on the mental health strategy following significant funding increases since 2004. The Minister responds by highlighting the opening of a new mental health facility and the government's commitment to community-based mental health services.
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MENTAL HEALTH STRATEGY 138. Ms D.J. GUISE to the Minister for Health: In January the state government added $89.36 million to the mental health strategy, taking the total extra funding for mental health since 2004 to $507 million. Will the minister please update the house on the progress of that strategy? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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I was very pleased this morning to travel to Bentley Hospital to open the John Milne centre, a new mental facility at Bentley Hospital and one that will be appreciated by everyone, particularly those people who live south of the river. It was a $2.3 million capital contribution that has provided an additional 18 beds for mental health patients. It focuses on the rehabilitation needs of people with mental illness and it will provide, with the additional 14 nursing staff and other allied health professionals who will be employed at this centre, a method of equipping people who have severe and persistent mental health so that they can live useful and productive lives in the community. They will go through this centre for, perhaps, a period of two months and will then be able to be accommodated in supported accommodation in the community. This centre will provide the very valuable link between the acute inpatient facilities and the community-based services that we are rapidly expanding throughout Western Australia. Since the former Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, initiated the mental health strategy with additional funding in 2004, this government has put $507 million extra into the provision of mental health facilities. Many members know that because they have been with me when we have opened new community clinics and new community residential facilities and the recently announced acute mental health inpatient facility in Broome and a similar facility in Bunbury. More importantly, the future focus of our endeavours needs to be better facilities to keep people well in the community. In other words, there must be more emphasis on community mental health facilities. That is what is being provided in the community. We must put more emphasis on community-based activities in order to meet the demands on this area—it is the fastest growing need within the health system. I am very pleased to be part of a government that is giving priority to mental health in a way that no previous government has.
MENTAL HEALTH STRATEGY
In January the state government added $89.36 million to the mental health strategy, taking the total extra funding for mental health since 2004 to $507 million. Will the minister please update the house on the progress of that strategy? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I was very pleased this morning to travel to Bentley Hospital to open the John Milne centre, a new mental facility at Bentley Hospital and one that will be appreciated by everyone, particularly those people who live south of the river. It was a $2.3 million capital contribution that has provided an additional 18 beds for mental health patients. It focuses on the rehabilitation needs of people with mental illness and it will provide, with the additional 14 nursing staff and other allied health professionals who will be employed at this centre, a method of equipping people who have severe and persistent mental health so that they can live useful and productive lives in the community. They will go through this centre for, perhaps, a period of two months and will then be able to be accommodated in supported accommodation in the community. This centre will provide the very valuable link between the acute inpatient facilities and the community-based services that we are rapidly expanding throughout Western Australia. Since the former Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, initiated the mental health strategy with additional funding in 2004, this government has put $507 million extra into the provision of mental health facilities. Many members know that because they have been with me when we have opened new community clinics and new community residential facilities and the recently announced acute mental health inpatient facility in Broome and a similar facility in Bunbury. More importantly, the future focus of our endeavours needs to be better facilities to keep people well in the community. In other words, there must be more emphasis on community mental health facilities. That is what is being provided in the community. We must put more emphasis on community-based activities in order to meet the demands on this area—it is the fastest growing need within the health system. I am very pleased to be part of a government that is giving priority to mental health in a way that no previous government has.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I was very pleased this morning to travel to Bentley Hospital to open the John Milne centre, a new mental facility at Bentley Hospital and one that will be appreciated by everyone, particularly those people who live south of the river. It was a $2.3 million capital contribution that has provided an additional 18 beds for mental health patients. It focuses on the rehabilitation needs of people with mental illness and it will provide, with the additional 14 nursing staff and other allied health professionals who will be employed at this centre, a method of equipping people who have severe and persistent mental health so that they can live useful and productive lives in the community. They will go through this centre for, perhaps, a period of two months and will then be able to be accommodated in supported accommodation in the community. This centre will provide the very valuable link between the acute inpatient facilities and the community-based services that we are rapidly expanding throughout Western Australia. Since the former Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, initiated the mental health strategy with additional funding in 2004, this government has put $507 million extra into the provision of mental health facilities. Many members know that because they have been with me when we have opened new community clinics and new community residential facilities and the recently announced acute mental health inpatient facility in Broome and a similar facility in Bunbury. More importantly, the future focus of our endeavours needs to be better facilities to keep people well in the community. In other words, there must be more emphasis on community mental health facilities. That is what is being provided in the community. We must put more emphasis on community-based activities in order to meet the demands on this area—it is the fastest growing need within the health system. I am very pleased to be part of a government that is giving priority to mental health in a way that no previous government has.
I was very pleased this morning to travel to Bentley Hospital to open the John Milne centre, a new mental facility at Bentley Hospital and one that will be appreciated by everyone, particularly those people who live south of the river. It was a $2.3 million capital contribution that has provided an additional 18 beds for mental health patients. It focuses on the rehabilitation needs of people with mental illness and it will provide, with the additional 14 nursing staff and other allied health professionals who will be employed at this centre, a method of equipping people who have severe and persistent mental health so that they can live useful and productive lives in the community. They will go through this centre for, perhaps, a period of two months and will then be able to be accommodated in supported accommodation in the community. This centre will provide the very valuable link between the acute inpatient facilities and the community-based services that we are rapidly expanding throughout Western Australia. Since the former Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, initiated the mental health strategy with additional funding in 2004, this government has put $507 million extra into the provision of mental health facilities. Many members know that because they have been with me when we have opened new community clinics and new community residential facilities and the recently announced acute mental health inpatient facility in Broome and a similar facility in Bunbury. More importantly, the future focus of our endeavours needs to be better facilities to keep people well in the community. In other words, there must be more emphasis on community mental health facilities. That is what is being provided in the community. We must put more emphasis on community-based activities in order to meet the demands on this area—it is the fastest growing need within the health system. I am very pleased to be part of a government that is giving priority to mental health in a way that no previous government has.
Since the former Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, initiated the mental health strategy with additional funding in 2004, this government has put $507 million extra into the provision of mental health facilities. Many members know that because they have been with me when we have opened new community clinics and new community residential facilities and the recently announced acute mental health inpatient facility in Broome and a similar facility in Bunbury. More importantly, the future focus of our endeavours needs to be better facilities to keep people well in the community. In other words, there must be more emphasis on community mental health facilities. That is what is being provided in the community. We must put more emphasis on community-based activities in order to meet the demands on this area—it is the fastest growing need within the health system. I am very pleased to be part of a government that is giving priority to mental health in a way that no previous government has.
MENTAL HEALTH STRATEGY
In January the state government added $89.36 million to the mental health strategy, taking the total extra funding for mental health since 2004 to $507 million. Will the minister please update the house on the progress of that strategy? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I was very pleased this morning to travel to Bentley Hospital to open the John Milne centre, a new mental facility at Bentley Hospital and one that will be appreciated by everyone, particularly those people who live south of the river. It was a $2.3 million capital contribution that has provided an additional 18 beds for mental health patients. It focuses on the rehabilitation needs of people with mental illness and it will provide, with the additional 14 nursing staff and other allied health professionals who will be employed at this centre, a method of equipping people who have severe and persistent mental health so that they can live useful and productive lives in the community. They will go through this centre for, perhaps, a period of two months and will then be able to be accommodated in supported accommodation in the community. This centre will provide the very valuable link between the acute inpatient facilities and the community-based services that we are rapidly expanding throughout Western Australia. Since the former Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, initiated the mental health strategy with additional funding in 2004, this government has put $507 million extra into the provision of mental health facilities. Many members know that because they have been with me when we have opened new community clinics and new community residential facilities and the recently announced acute mental health inpatient facility in Broome and a similar facility in Bunbury. More importantly, the future focus of our endeavours needs to be better facilities to keep people well in the community. In other words, there must be more emphasis on community mental health facilities. That is what is being provided in the community. We must put more emphasis on community-based activities in order to meet the demands on this area—it is the fastest growing need within the health system. I am very pleased to be part of a government that is giving priority to mental health in a way that no previous government has.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I was very pleased this morning to travel to Bentley Hospital to open the John Milne centre, a new mental facility at Bentley Hospital and one that will be appreciated by everyone, particularly those people who live south of the river. It was a $2.3 million capital contribution that has provided an additional 18 beds for mental health patients. It focuses on the rehabilitation needs of people with mental illness and it will provide, with the additional 14 nursing staff and other allied health professionals who will be employed at this centre, a method of equipping people who have severe and persistent mental health so that they can live useful and productive lives in the community. They will go through this centre for, perhaps, a period of two months and will then be able to be accommodated in supported accommodation in the community. This centre will provide the very valuable link between the acute inpatient facilities and the community-based services that we are rapidly expanding throughout Western Australia. Since the former Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, initiated the mental health strategy with additional funding in 2004, this government has put $507 million extra into the provision of mental health facilities. Many members know that because they have been with me when we have opened new community clinics and new community residential facilities and the recently announced acute mental health inpatient facility in Broome and a similar facility in Bunbury. More importantly, the future focus of our endeavours needs to be better facilities to keep people well in the community. In other words, there must be more emphasis on community mental health facilities. That is what is being provided in the community. We must put more emphasis on community-based activities in order to meet the demands on this area—it is the fastest growing need within the health system. I am very pleased to be part of a government that is giving priority to mental health in a way that no previous government has.
I was very pleased this morning to travel to Bentley Hospital to open the John Milne centre, a new mental facility at Bentley Hospital and one that will be appreciated by everyone, particularly those people who live south of the river. It was a $2.3 million capital contribution that has provided an additional 18 beds for mental health patients. It focuses on the rehabilitation needs of people with mental illness and it will provide, with the additional 14 nursing staff and other allied health professionals who will be employed at this centre, a method of equipping people who have severe and persistent mental health so that they can live useful and productive lives in the community. They will go through this centre for, perhaps, a period of two months and will then be able to be accommodated in supported accommodation in the community. This centre will provide the very valuable link between the acute inpatient facilities and the community-based services that we are rapidly expanding throughout Western Australia. Since the former Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, initiated the mental health strategy with additional funding in 2004, this government has put $507 million extra into the provision of mental health facilities. Many members know that because they have been with me when we have opened new community clinics and new community residential facilities and the recently announced acute mental health inpatient facility in Broome and a similar facility in Bunbury. More importantly, the future focus of our endeavours needs to be better facilities to keep people well in the community. In other words, there must be more emphasis on community mental health facilities. That is what is being provided in the community. We must put more emphasis on community-based activities in order to meet the demands on this area—it is the fastest growing need within the health system. I am very pleased to be part of a government that is giving priority to mental health in a way that no previous government has.
Since the former Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, initiated the mental health strategy with additional funding in 2004, this government has put $507 million extra into the provision of mental health facilities. Many members know that because they have been with me when we have opened new community clinics and new community residential facilities and the recently announced acute mental health inpatient facility in Broome and a similar facility in Bunbury. More importantly, the future focus of our endeavours needs to be better facilities to keep people well in the community. In other words, there must be more emphasis on community mental health facilities. That is what is being provided in the community. We must put more emphasis on community-based activities in order to meet the demands on this area—it is the fastest growing need within the health system. I am very pleased to be part of a government that is giving priority to mental health in a way that no previous government has.
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