Service contact data at the patient level for specialised community mental health services managed or funded by state or territory health authorities.

Collection details
Variables to support reporting and linkage
  • Age (Date of birth)
  • Sex/gender
  • Indigenous status
  • SA2

Temporal coverage 

from 1/7/2000 to 30/6/2024

Geographical coverage

National and State

Data availability

  • Publications
  • Summary tables published in electronic form

Data scope 

Specialised public mental health services that are classified as 'ambulatory'. They do not include: admitted patient mental health care services, support services that are not specialised mental health care services (e.g. accommodation support services), and services provided by non-government organisations and residential care services.

Methodology 

Admin data

Metadata information

Community mental health care NMDS 2023-24 – Data Set Specification
(METEOR 756067)

Contact

[email protected]

*Data collection with restricted access