Mental health
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Home
- Overview
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Topic areas
- Summary
- Admitted patients
- Community services
- Consumer outcomes
- Consumer perspectives
- Presentations to emergency departments
- Expenditure on mental health services
- Specialised facilities
- Income and employment support
- Involuntary treatment
- Medicare mental health services
- Mental health prescriptions
- Psychosocial disability support
- Residential services
- Seclusion and restraint
- Social isolation and loneliness
- Workforce
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Reports
- Monitoring
- Snapshots
- Resources
This site describes the activity and characteristics of Australia’s health and social care services accessed by people with a mental illness. It includes mental health-related services provided by various levels of government, how much was spent, who provided the funds, where mental health services were delivered and safety, quality and monitoring data.
Safety, quality and monitoring measures are reported via the mental health-related indicators and through service activity monitoring. This provides valuable insights into how services are provided and responding to changing populations needs and events such as natural disasters, COVID-19 pandemic and policy changes.
Latest updates
- Community mental health care: National data - state and territory data will be available in December 2024
- Residential mental health care: National data- state and territory data will be available in December 2024
- Involuntary mental health treatment: Partial update
- Admitted patient care: National data - state and territory data will be available in December 2024
- Income and employment support: New
Data and information
A full list of sections available on this site can be found under the following headings:
- Overview
Mental health prevalence, Australia's mental health system & Mental health services summary. - Topic areas
Services, Facilities & resources and Safety and quality. - Reports
Mental health reports - Monitoring
Performance indicators & Service activity quarterly monitoring. - Snapshots
Summaries of other mental health data available across the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare website. - Resources
Archived data, Classifications & tech notes, Committees, Contact information, Data sources, Data tables, Glossary and Links & other information.
Scheduled updates
The Mental Health Online Report is updated multiple times per year.
Scheduled updates for 2024:
- 14 Feb 2024
- 30 April 2024
- 24 July 2024
- 10 October 2024
- 10 December 2024