Health Infrastructure is delivering the Statewide Mental Health Infrastructure Program (SWMHIP) as part of the NSW Government’s commitment to mental health infrastructure reform.
OVERVIEW
The SWMHIP is a NSW Government initiative designed to support the delivery of mental healthcare reform across the state.
The SWMHIP will help to address statewide gaps in inpatient services including mothers and their babies, children and adolescents, older persons and forensic patients. It will also provide facilities for patients to transition or receive care in the community.
The NSW Government is investing $700 million in the SWMHIP.
BENEFITS
The SWMHIP will provide a substantial increase in available inpatient beds in the NSW mental health system, providing at a minimum 167 new inpatient beds, 134 replacement beds and a minimum of 49 refurbished beds. In addition, the SWMHIP seeks to support transition of long stay consumers with complex care needs to community-based services by delivering approximately 230 community beds in partnership with community managed organisations (CMOs). In addition, the SWMHIP is improving the therapeutic environment of a large number of facilities across NSW.
This will result in:
- Better mental health, physical health and wellbeing outcomes for mental health consumers
- Improved patient and carer satisfaction through delivery of patient centred and recovery-oriented care • Increased access to appropriate care
- Reduction in number of long stay patients in NSW mental health facilities
- Enhanced capacity and improved efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of mental health services
- The delivery of infrastructure that is co-designed by consumers, their family, carers and staff
- Addressing service gaps to provide appropriate care and meet future demand
- Improved patient and staff safety (workplace health and safety, seclusion incidents).
SWMHIP includes the following projects:
In planning
Broken Hill Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit
Banksia Mental Health Unit (Tamworth)
Nexus Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Unit (John Hunter Hospital)
Nepean Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Unit
Under construction
Freshwater Mental Health Intensive Care Unit
Blacktown Mental Health
Westmead Mother and Baby Unit
Complete
Campbelltown Mental Health Unit
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Morther and Baby Unit
CO-DESIGN
The SWMHIP recognises the valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental health, their family members, carers and staff can make in overseeing improvements to mental health care.
Co-design creates an equal and reciprocal relationship between all stakeholders, enabling them to design and deliver services in partnership with each other, to ensure the end-product is more likely to meet everyone’s needs.
Health Infrastructure is committed to ensuring mental health facilities delivered as part of SWMHIP are co-designed to deliver modern, welcoming, safe and therapeutic environments that meet the needs of the people who use them.
ADDITIONAL LINKS
For enquiries and more information about the SWMHIP, please contact:
HI-SWMHIP@health.nsw.gov.au