Mental Health News in Brief
Mental Health Regulation
The Mental Health Regulation 2025 commenced on 1 September 2025. The updated legislation ensures that the dignity and privacy of consumers are maintained when completing audio visual assessments under the Mental Health Act. The 2025 legislation ensures that consumers are provided with sufficient, supporting information upon discharge from mental health facilities including details of support groups, and local community legal centres. The legislation has updates to the Electroconvulsive Therapy language, and as a result the prescribed form 5 has been amended to reflect changes and Form 6 has been removed completely, refer to Mental Health Act 2007 forms. Patient Safety Survey Prize Winners 2025 I am pleased to announce that a Mental Health Drug and Alcohol team achieved a high response rate in the recently conducted 2025 Patient Safety Culture Survey (PSCS). This team is therefore eligible for one of twelve $1,000 prizes to be used for resources for their area, staff education or wellbeing. The winning team is: Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Mental Health Service - Inpatient Units -Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre
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