Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network

National Outcomes Forum 2010

AMHOCN held a very successful mental health outcomes forum on the 15th of July in Adelaide. Presentations covered a number of aspects of information use in mental health across a variety of program streams. Below are copies of the presentations delivered.

Keynote Address

Mark Smith - “New Zealand outcomes: a national perspective”

Measurement in Child and Adolescent Services

Peter Brann - “And after Tuesday lunch: Benchmarking and outcomes and their impact on service delivery

Marg Jones - “Discharge planning and clinical pathways: Using outcome measure information in CAMHS - the emerging picture”

Measurement in Older Persons and Forensic Services

Rod McKay - “A journey using routine outcome measurement in mental health services for older people”

Dale Owens - “The clinical utility of outcome measures in forensic mental health”

Using measures to understand practice

Neda Dusevic - “All roads lead to Rome: Clinical information in the 21st century”

Carolynne White - “Using the HoNOS to measure the impact of a structured psychosocial intervention: Outcomes and implications for clinical practice”

Outcome measurement in specialist services

Rebecca Tsang & Dodie Bennett - “Implementing the Camberwell Assessment of Need in an NGO”

John Dillon & Paul Pedro - “The development of a cultural information gathering tool and training vignette to support the care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in North Queensland Mental Health Services”

Rajiv Ramanathan & Yvonne Stolk - “Issues in Outcome Measurement with CaLD consumers”

Consumer View

Cath McDowall & Rebecca Talbot - “The integral role of the peer specialist in improving clinical utility of outcome measures”

Using mental health information: consumer self report measures

Nicola Farray - “Future directions for technology in collecting consumer self-rated outcome measures”

Ossi Beck - “Consumer self rated measures: lip service or real service”

Innovative use of measurement in practice

Bill Miliotis - “Community rehabilitation centres and outcomes: does NOCC measure rehabilitation”

Liz Prowse - “Push and pull: referrals for residential rehabilitation”

Engaging the workforce through the use of mental health information

Rhian Davies - "Selling snow to the Eskimos: Developing a resource for clinical documentation and outcome measures and their use in clinical practice"

Tracey Siebert - “Mandatory monitoring of vulnerable mental health service consumers during the event of high or extreme heat environmental conditions”

Analysis and reporting of mental health information

Philip Burgess - “It’s time to remember NOCC is also about casemix: Australian casemix development in mental health”

Tom Trauer - “Reporting service performance of mental health services”