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6325 - BANKSIA MENTAL HEALTH UNIT

Butler, Roy to the Minister for Health and Medical Research representing the Minister for Mental Health, Regional Youth and Women
BANKSIA MENTAL HEALTH UNIT

(1) How many patients attended the Banksia Mental Health Unit by town or Local Government Area annually since 2010?

(2) Is the predictive population, used as the basis for the modelling of future regional and Tamworth mental health facility requirements, supplied by the Department of Planning?

(a) Is this number less than the planning number used by Tamworth Regional Council's Tamworth Regional Blueprint 100, the Moree Special Activation precinct and the Narrabri Shire Inland Port for future population predictions?

(3) Is the new Tamworth regional mental health (Banksia) facility being planned using adequate population projections?
Answer -
BANKSIA MENTAL HEALTH UNIT

(1) From 2010 to December 2020, there were 4117 patients admitted to the Banksia Mental Health Unit from more than 60 Local Government Areas, including in New South Wales and other states.

(2-3) The new Banksia Mental Health Unit is being planned using the National Mental Health Services Planning Framework - a nationally endorsed population based mental health planning model. The Framework utilises official NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment population projections developed for NSW Health.

The Framework is one of several sources of information used to support New South Wales mental health planning. Planning is also informed by community consultation, analysis of local demographics, analysis of health services’ activity data, resource and infrastructure availability, as well as models of care, service structures and expert local knowledge.

The New South Wales population numbers used in the Framework’s Planning Support Tool are NSW Health population projections based on data from the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE).

Question asked on 13 October 2021 (session 57-1) and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 121
Answer received on 17 November 2021 and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 131

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