Mental Health Australia webinar on the Australian Mental Health Care Classification
Date published: 26 August 2022
A webinar with Mental Health Australia and the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority.
The benefits to the mental health community of having a good classification system are:
- increased transparency and improve cost predictiveness
- accurate and consistent data about the services provided across different mental health care settings
- a better understanding of mental health consumers and the services they are receiving
- support for new models of mental health care being used across states and territories
- potential for improved planning and distribution of resources
- ability to undertake performance benchmarking across similar services.