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Centre for Mental Health
Data management—Mental Health Clinical Care and Prevention Service Planning Model (MH-CCP)
MH-CCP is a population-based mental health service model. To plan the provision of mental health services in NSW, it is essential to identify a framework that will achieve the aim of NSW mental health policy (Caring for Mental Health), ie. to improve the mental health of the people of NSW. Such a framework must also assist the achievement of the specific goals of mental health service provision:
- improve the mental health and wellbeing of people across the lifespan
- prevent, where possible, the development of mental health problems and disorders
- lessen the development, impact and recurrence of illness through early intervention
- effectively treat and, where this is not possible, rehabilitate, support and maintain people experiencing mental health problems and disorders to ensure optimal quality of life
- achieve fairness and equity in service provision for mental health care in NSW.
To achieve these aims, it has been agreed nationally via the National Mental Health Working Group and internationally via the US Surgeon General’s Report and WHO communication that a population-based mental health approach is required. This encompasses a spectrum of interventions and levels of care, delivered on a basis of available evidence as to what is effective, and coordinated across the lifespan.
This Mental Health Clinical Care and Prevention model (MH-CCP), therefore, is consistent with requirements of the NSW Mental Health Policy Caring for Mental Health and the whole-of-lifespan population approach outlined in the Population Mental Health Based Service Model - A Population Health Model for the Provision of Mental Health Care (Emeritus Professor Beverley Raphael), the directions stipulated in the NSW Health Council Report and a key direction identified in the external evaluation of the National Mental Health Strategy in relation to the "appropriateness of national mental health policy settings from an international perspective".
The current MH-CCP model is the result of work done by the Centre for Mental Health since 1996 in collaboration with other branches of the Department and with Area Health Services to develop the epidemiological, clinical, and financial evidence base on mental health needs and mental health services in NSW.
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