Mental Health Brief Intervention Service
South Link Health introduced the Mental Health Brief Intervention Service in South Canterbury to allow general practices to provide effective and accessible mental health support to those with mild to moderate mental illness.
This service helps people, whose conditions do not warrant secondary service based treatment, enabling them to more readily access short-term treatment and intervention in a community setting before their condition worsens.
A survey of the first 100 referrals revealed every General Practitioner team believed the service helped client recovery, and there was total satisfaction with the service’s timeliness. Of the clients 97.5% said the service understood and met their needs and 92.5% reported they were “recovered” or “recovering” after referral to the service.
The service was the winner of the New Zealand Health Innovation 2007 Award for Excellence in Primary Care.
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