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The Australian Centre for Value-Based Health Care is proud to bring you the next webinar in our series: Searching for Value in Mental Health Care Delivery with Associate Professor Louise Stone and Professor Christine Phillips from the Australian National University.  

Service delivery for people with mental illness and distress currently accounts for 7.5% of the Australian healthcare budget. There is also evidence that there is profound inequity in mental health care delivery, with the most vulnerable members of the community receiving one fifth of the mental health services.  Australia has a relatively diverse and distributed system for delivering mental health care, with Commonwealth-subsidised specialised services, primary care practitioners, and mental health practitioners, other services funded through states and territories and private practitioners direct-contracted by consumers.  The challenges for any practitioner, and any person with an evolving mental illness, is establishing what constitutes value for that person, and how that may intersect with what constitutes value for the health system.  In this talk, two clinicians discuss this intersection - the sweet spot for policymakers - and critically explore strategies to deliver person-centred value within a sustainable, responsive health system.

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