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About the PMHC-MDS

Funding by the Australian Government Department of Health has been provided to Primary Health Networks (PHNs) through a Primary Mental Health Care flexible funding pool to support commissioning of mental health and suicide prevention services in six key service delivery areas:

  • low intensity psychological interventions for people with, or at risk of, mild mental illness;
  • psychological therapies delivered by mental health professionals to under serviced groups;
  • early intervention services for children and young people with, or at risk of mental illness;
  • services for people with severe and complex mental illness who are being managed in a primary care setting;
  • enhanced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health services; and
  • a regional approach to suicide prevention activities with a focus on improved follow-up for people who have attempted suicide or are at high risk of suicide.

The Primary Mental Health Care Minimum Data Set (PMHC MDS) will provide the basis for PHNs and the Department of Health to monitor and report on the quantity and quality of service delivery, and to inform future improvements in the planning and funding of primary mental health care services funded by the Australian Government.

The data reported by PHNs through the PMHC MDS will form the basis for production of key performance indicators used to monitor services delivered across the 31 PHN regions covered by PHNs.

Logicly has been contracted by the Department of Health to manage the PMHC MDS on its behalf.

A specification of the data items to be collected in the PMHC MDS is available.

If you would like to be notified about updates to this specification or announcements about the rollout of the PMHC MDS please subscribe to the PMHC MDS mailing list by sending an email to support@pmhc-mds.com with the subject “subscribe news@lists.pmhc-mds.com”. This is not a general discussion list. Only moderated users can send messages to this list.

Information about how to get started on the PMHC MDS is available and will be regularly updated.

Announcements

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Update to the PMHC MDS - 27/7/2026 (v3.3.8)

PMHC MDS Update v3.3.8

We are pleased to announce that PMHC MDS Update v3.3.8 was released on July 27, 2026.

The following updates have been applied in the data extract interface:

  • Users with the ‘Reporting’ role at a PHN can now extract only the data from an inactive Provider Organisation (previously they could only extract data for an inactive Provider Organisation as part of a full PHN extract). If a user has the ‘Reporting’ role on an inactive Provider Organisation, they will be allowed to extract data until 3 months after the ‘Organisation End Date’

The following updates have been applied in the reporting interface:

  • The following report has been updated to allow grouping down to site level:
    • M8 — Episode of care characteristics.
  • Fixed a timeout issue when running the G1— Residential Aged Care Facility Client Outcomes report at the National level.

The following updates have been applied to the upload interface:

  • ‘Organisation type referred to at Episode conclusion’ accepts multiple values. Improved the error message returned when episodes have duplicate ‘Organisation type referred to at Episode conclusion’ but no end date.
  • Fixed the validation message when ‘Organisation type referred to at Intake conclusion’ is blank when the other intake conclusion fields are completed.
  • Fixed a bug where if an episode is open, ‘Organisation type referred to at Episode conclusion’ should not be populated.
  • Fixed a bug where a date was missing from errors returned for Universal Aftercare ‘Primary Nominated Professional Consent Date’ and ‘Primary Nominated Professional Contact Entry Date’

The following validation rules have been changed:

  • Updated the validation rule for ‘Organisation type referred to at Intake conclusion’ so that the response ‘42: AMHC’ is obsolete where ‘Date client contacted Intake’ is 18 December 2025 or later. Previously this rule allowed the ‘42: AMHC’ response on data that had already been uploaded to the PMHC, but not on new data.
  • Updated the validation rule for ‘Organisation type referred to at Intake conclusion’ so that the response ‘44: HeadtoHelp / HeadtoHealth’ can be used by all organisations where ‘Date client contacted Intake’ is earlier than 18 December 2025. After that date it is obsolete except for remaining Head to Health Clinics located in Victoria and Thornleigh, NSW. Previously this rule allowed the ‘44: HeadtoHelp / HeadtoHealth’ response on data that had already been uploaded to the PMHC, but not on new data.

The following updates have been applied to the data entry interface:

  • Added links to the documentation when adding a new Intake or IAR-DST record.

The user guides have been updated to reflect these updates. They are available at https://docs.pmhc-mds.com/.

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Update to the PMHC MDS - 1/7/2026 (v3.3.4) July 01, 2026

Final reminder - End of life for PMHC MDS v4.1 and Way Back v3.0 specifications June 23, 2026

Update to the PMHC MDS - 19/6/2026 (v3.3.3) June 19, 2026

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