Senate debates
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Questions without Notice
Mental Health
2:16 pm
Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source
In terms of the specifics, I indeed imagine that it is not in my portfolio area of health. In addressing the senator's question, what we have announced today with this new package will do exactly what I think the senator is referring to. It is about working with people on an individual basis to ensure that their needs are met. It is about looking across different communities and sectors so that our Primary Health Networks will now have the ability, at a local level, to look across their regions and assess the levels of need in those communities, so that people in the workplaces that the senator is referring to will be able to be assessed for their level of need and what the most appropriate way of delivering services to them will be. That is very different to the very constrained, siloed program delivery outcomes we have at the moment.
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