A re-elected majority Liberal Government will strengthen mental health services across the State as part of its 2030 Strong Plan for Tasmania’s Future.

Premier Jeremy Rockliff said our 2030 Strong Plan for Tasmania’s Future is about taking action, right now, on issues affecting Tasmanians, including delivering more mental health services.

“We have already invested significantly in the St John’s Park Health and Wellbeing Precinct, and under our 2030 Strong Plan we will invest $82.5 million to build a purpose-built 40-bed Older Persons Mental Health Complex to the development,” the Premier said.

“Having access to the mental health and wellbeing support you need, close to where you live, is so important.

“We have seen the positive impacts that Recovery Colleges, Safe Havens and Integration Hubs – like the Peacock Centre in Hobart - have on supporting Tasmanians who are in mental distress, and provide a chance to improve their mental health and wellbeing and personal recovery through services, brief interventions and free education.

“So to support increased access to mental health services in the North-West, we will build a $7.65 million Mental Health Hub in Devonport, which will offer Safe Haven, Recovery College, and the Integration Hub.”

“Following the roll-out of the Emergency Mental Health Co-Response Service into the North West, a re-elected majority Liberal Government will also extend the initiative into the North commencing in 2025.”

“The PACER program - a co-response service involving mental health clinicians, paramedics and Tasmania Police - was established by our Liberal Government in 2021.

“This initiative has reduced presentations to the state’s emergency departments by assisting 1,568 Tasmanians in 2022-23, with 75 per cent able to remain in the community, rather than be transferred to hospital.”

Under our 2030 Strong Plan for Tasmania's Future, a re-elected majority Liberal Government will:

• Deliver more support for children and adolescent mental health - extending outreach clinics in regional areas, a new after-hours service in Burnie and Launceston, and youth Mental Health Hospital@Home in the North-West;
• Build a $7.6 million Mental Health Hub in Devonport, which will include a Safe Haven, Recovery College and Integration Hub, with similar services delivered at the new Mental Health Precinct at the LGH;
• Pilot an Emergency Mental Health Co-Response Service in the North;
• Build a purpose-built $82.5 million 40-bed Older Persons Mental Health complex, part of the St John's Park Health and Wellbeing Precinct;
• Build more mental health beds - a 27 bed mental health centre at St John's Park, two mental health precincts at the NWRH and LGH;
• Implement the Suicide Prevention Strategy 2023-2027; and
• Expand Eating Disorder services - community clinics in the North-West, a Statewide intervention program with group and day programs and 12-bed residential centre in the south.

Only a re-elected Liberal Government has a 2030 Strong Plan to strengthen access to mental health and wellbeing services in Tasmania.