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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 - 11/8/2024 (v2.13.0)

PMHC MDS Update v2.13.0

We are pleased to announce that PMHC MDS Update v2.13.0 was released on August 1, 2024.

As previously advised, Version 2 of the Initial Assessment and Referral Decision Support Tool can now be recorded in the PMHC MDS.

Version 2 includes separate rating guides available for use with Children (aged 5-11), Adolescents (aged 12-17), Adults (aged 18-64), Older Adults (aged 65 and over). More information regarding IAR-DST Version 2 is available via the official IAR-DST v2 specification documentation at https://docs.iar-dst.online/en/v2/.

The PMHC MDS data entry interface will now accept either Version 1 or Version 2 of the IAR-DST.

Both Version 1 and Version 2 of the IAR-DST can now be uploaded to the PMHC MDS using the v4.0.4 data specification. v4.0.4 is backwards compatible with the existing v4 specifications. Therefore, any organisations that are not yet ready to collect IAR-DST Version 2 data, can continue to upload with their current file format. The v4.0.4 data specification is available at https://docs.pmhc-mds.com/projects/data-specification/en/v4/.

Specific information about implementing Version 2 of the IAR-DST is available at https://docs.pmhc-mds.com/projects/data-specification/en/v4/data-model-and-specifications.html#iar-dst.

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