Tag Archives: National Mental Health Plan

Is the draft 4th National Mental Health Plan a dud?

May 21, 2009 – 6:23 pm

Sydney psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen has previously shared his concerns about the 4th National Mental Health Plan with Croakey readers here and here.
Now he has written a report for Croakey on a forum held in Melbourne last month to provide the Feds with some feedback from the outside world. He writes:
“Can the better bits [...]

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Why the Fed Health Dept’s culture of secrecy is bad for mental health

April 16, 2009 – 9:16 am

As previously mentioned, Croakey has a copy of the evaluation of the 2003-2008 National Mental Health Plan, that was undertaken by US consultant Charles Curie and English psychiatrist Professor Graham Thornicroft.
Sydney psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen has now evaluated the evaluation, and here are his conclusions:
“This summative evaluation report is very gentle, restrained and fairly [...]

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Revealing the hidden documents of health

April 1, 2009 – 1:23 pm

As the blurb to the right indicates, the Croakey blog takes a sharp interest in evidence-informed policy and practice, transparency and informed public debate.
In the interests of all these worthy causes, as well as giving the pot a well-deserved stir, we are launching a new Croakey initiative.
Let’s call it the Croakey Register of Unreleased Documents [...]

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Less haste, more care need in mental health planning

March 31, 2009 – 12:18 pm

Lesley Russell and Robert Wells, of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney/Australian National University, write:
“The communiqué from the most recent meeting of the Australian Health Ministers Conference on March 5 announced the launch of Australia’s new National Mental Health Policy 2008, describing it as representing ‘a renewed commitment by all governments to [...]

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