
Pre-Budget Submission to the Federal Government
1 September 2022
Category: Submissions
In this pre-budget submission to the federal government’s October 2022 budget, QAMH calls on the federal government to:
- Put Mental Wellbeing at the centre of the wellbeing budget and embed this wellbeing approach across the entire public sector
- Ensure the National Mental Health Workforce Strategy explicitly and comprehensively plans for the development and growth of a contemporary community mental health workforce
- Increase investment in the non-governmental community mental health and wellbeing sector to bridge the service gaps
- Ensure Primary Health Network contracts are consistently five years in length and include indexation which accurately reflects the increased costs of business
- Reform the NDIS by reviewing the pricing arrangements, thin markets in rural and remote areas, looming workforce shortages, and the appropriateness of the NDIS model for psychosocial disability
- Establish a broader network of community alternatives to emergency departments