The federal government will develop an integrated web-based portal with a single phone line as part of a digital gateway program to help people navigate mental health services, with work to begin this financial year and the gateway progressively rolled out from 2016-17.
As part of its response to the 'Contributing Lives, Thriving Communities' review of mental health programs by the National Mental Health Commission, delivered a year ago, the government will also redirect $350 million per annum in funding for various programs coordinated by the Department of Health to Primary Health Networks (PHNs), which will now be in charge of planning and commissioning mental health services on a regional basis.
