Tier 3 - Health system performance

3.10 Access to mental health services

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List of tables in measure 3.10

Table D3.10.1: Indigenous Australians aged 18 and over who reported high/very high levels of psychological distress, by whether saw a health professional about feelings in the last 4 weeks, 2018–19

Table D3.10.2: VII adjusted, MBS services claimed, psychologists and psychiatrists, by Indigenous status, sex, jurisdiction and remoteness, Australia, 2017–18

Table D3.10.3: Community mental health care service contacts, by Indigenous status, sex and age group, 2017–18

Table D3.10.4: Community mental health care service contacts, by Indigenous status and jurisdiction, 2017–18

Table D3.10.5: Residential mental health care episodes, by Indigenous status and jurisdiction, 2017–18

Table D3.10.7: Ambulatory-equivalent and non-ambulatory-equivalent mental health-related hospitalisations, by Indigenous status, remoteness and sex, Australia, July 2017 to June 2019

Table D3.10.8: Average length of stay for non-ambulatory-equivalent mental health-related hospitalisations, by Indigenous status and sex, Australia, July 2017 to June 2019

Table D3.10.10: Psychiatric hospitals and specialised mental health units in public acute hospitals, and available beds, by remoteness area and jurisdiction, 2017–18

Table D3.10.11: Community mental health care service contacts, by Indigenous status and remoteness, 2017–18

This measure was last updated on 31 January 2023. See table below for details of updates by data source.

Topic	Data source	Latest time period reported	Measure content last updated
Primary health care and community mental health services	The Bettering the Evaluation And Care of Health (BEACH) survey	2015–16^(a)	8 Dec 2020
	Online Services Reporting data collection	2017–18	8 Dec 2020
	National Community Mental Health Care Database	2017–18	8 Dec 2020
	National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey	2018–19	8 Dec 2020
Medicare-subsidised clinical mental health-care services	Medicare data	2017–18	8 Dec 2020
Hospitalisations	National Hospital Morbidity Database	2017–19	31 Jan 2023
	National Mental Health Establishments Database	2017–19	31 Jan 2023
Residential mental health care services	National Residential Mental Health Care Database	2017–18	8 Dec 2020
Mental health workforce	National Health Workforce Data Set	2017	8 Dec 2020

(a) Survey has now ceased, so no further updates will be published.

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