Specialised mental health service unit—implementation of National Standards for Mental Health Services status, code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Health, Standard 16/01/2020

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Collection and usage attributes

CODE 1   The service unit had been reviewed and was judged to have met all of the applicable National Standards for Mental Health Services as determined by the accrediting agency

For more information on the determination of applicable National Standards for Mental Health Services please refer to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care website (http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/mental-health/national-standards-in-mental-health/).

CODE 2    The service unit had been reviewed by an external accrediting agency and was judged to have met some but not all of the current National Standards for Mental Health Services.

This code should be used when the service has been accredited against the National Safety and Quality Health Service standards, which meets some but not all of the National Standards for Mental Health Services.

CODE 8   The National Standards for Mental Health Services are not applicable to this service unit.

This code should only be used for:

• non-government organisation mental health services and private hospitals (that receive some government funding to provide specialised mental health services) where implementation of National standards for Mental Health Services has not been agreed with the relevant state or territory; or
• those aged care residential services (e.g. psychogeriatric nursing homes) in receipt of funding under the Aged Care Act and subject to Australian Government residential aged care reporting and service standards requirements.

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Report the review/accreditation status at 30 June for each service unit for the National Standards for Mental Health Services using the standard set of codes shown in the value domain.

For organisations that include more than one service unit the codes relating to each service should be completed. Reporting of progress at the individual service unit level recognises that parts rather than whole organisations may be implementing the standards.

NOTE: for admitted patient setting only, these data need to be disaggregated by specialised mental health service program type and specialised mental health service target population.

Relational attributes