Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
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Australas Psychiatry · Feb 2019
Do police-mental health co-responder programmes reduce emergency department presentations or simply delay the inevitable?
The aim of this study was to assess the outcomes for people following intervention by a police-mental health co-responder team. ⋯ Interventions provided through the co-responder team were capable not only of resolving the immediate crisis for the majority of people, but were also likely to divert people away from ED and inpatient treatment in the immediate term.
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Australas Psychiatry · Feb 2019
No gold medals: Assessing Australia's international mental health performance.
The objective of this study was to present an assessment of Australia's mental health system performance, within its social context, by comparison with other countries. ⋯ While international benchmarking can play an important role in fostering quality improvement, there are only limited mental health or social system performance data sources to utilise. It would be desirable for a more systematic international process to be established to review existing approaches and design a new multilateral strategy. It would be important that this new strategy reflected the full experience of mental health and its broader social context.