AMA Mental Health and Wellbeing Position Statement
The AMA Mental Health and Wellbeing position statement advocates that all levels of governments, and non-governmental organisations, need to work cooperatively to design a mental healthcare system that is patient centred, and needs based, informed by evidence and research, with adequate investment and sustainable funding.
For mental health consumers and their families, navigating the mental health system and finding the right care at the right time can be fraught, and have detrimental socio-economic impacts. Mental illness is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases faced by Australians and its complexity should be given the same value as other chronic diseases in terms of item number rebates, and health system investment to improve mental health outcomes. This will need whole-of-government investment.
