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Web report
Last updated: 03 May 2018
Author: AIHW
Media release

Mental health services in Australia (MHSA) provides a picture of the national response of the health and welfare service system to the mental health care needs of Australians.

MHSA is updated progressively throughout each year as data becomes available. Email notifications of all updates can be provided. For more information visit the subscribe to release notices page.

Mental health services in Australia has been published as a web report since 2011.

Findings from this report:

4 million people were estimated to have experienced a common mental disorder in 2015
$9 billion was spent on mental health in
2015–16

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Report contents
Mental health indicators
National mental health committees
Classifications and technical notes
Data
Archived reports and data

Archived reports and data

This section provides the data that had been made available on the website in previous years. It should be noted that due to historical validation, the data presented here may not match with time series data presented within the particular sections.

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General practice

Mental health-related services provided by general practitioners (271KB)

Mental health-related services provided by general practitioners tables (496KB XLS)

Emergency departments

Mental health services provided in emergency departments (263KB)

Mental health services provided in emergency departments (444KB XLS)

Community care

State and territory community mental health care (321KB)

State and territory community mental health care (1MB XLS)

Ambulatory-equivalent -private hospitals

Ambulatory-equivalent mental health admitted patient care-private hospitals (260KB)

Ambulatory-equivalent mental health admitted patient care-private hospitals (329KB XLS)

Ambulatory-equivalent-public hospitals

Ambulatory-equivalent mental health admitted patient care-public hospitals (224KB)

Ambulatory-equivalent mental health admitted patient care-public hospitals (386KB XLS)

Medicare

Medicare- subsidised mental health-related services (233KB)

Medicare- subsidised mental health-related services tables (1MB XLS)

Admitted patient care

Admitted patient mental health-related care (505KB)

Admitted patient mental health-related care tables (1MB XLS)

Residential care

Residential mental health care (331KB)

Residential mental health care tables (809KB XLS)

Specialist homelessness services ^(a)

Specialist homelessness services (149KB)

Specialist homelessness services (729KB XLS)

Psychiatric disability

Psychiatric disability support services (197KB)

Psychiatric disability support services (549KB XLS)

Personal Helpers and Mentors

Personal Helpers and Mentors services (115KB)

Personal Helpers and Mentors services tables (222KB XLS)

Access to Allied Psychological services

Access to Allied Psychological services (260KB)

Access to Allied Psychological services tables (165KB XLS)

Prescriptions

Mental health-related prescriptions (149KB)

Mental health-related prescriptions tables (245KB XLS)

Facilities

Mental health-related facilities 2014-15 (1.1MB)

Mental health-related prescriptions tables 2014-15 (2.5MB XLS)

Workforce

Mental health workforce (245KB)

Mental health workforce tables (1.5MB XLS)

Expenditure

Mental health-related expenditure (394KB)

Mental health-related expenditure tables (1.9MB XLS)

Indicators

Key Performance Indicators for Australian Public Mental Health Services tables (573KB XLS)

National Healthcare Agreement Indicators tables (573KB XLS)

Notes:

n.a. not available on MHSA

(a) Data presented in this section are weighted, adjustments have been made to represent the population from which the data sample was drawn. This means data takes into account undercounting of support periods that result from non-response. The SHS Data Excel file in the archives use unweighted data. Any comparison between the data in this Excel file and those in the Archives needs to be made with caution. This section was previously called Supported accommodation assistance.

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