Submission to Productivity Commission Review of the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement
Lived Experience Findings
Read our submission to learn what our members had to say.
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Our involvement with the consultation
The MHLEPQ worked with our members to provide a lived experience-only perspective on the Productivity Commission’s Review of the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement.
MHLEPQ sought membership feedback on the proposed findings of the Interim Report and co-created a submission that reflected lived experience knowledge and expertise.
Key insights from our submission
The MHLEPQ encourages further attention be paid to:- Establishment of a human rights compliance framework that underpins the Agreement to ensure the implementation of the Agreement supports, upholds and respects the rights of people with a lived/living experience of mental health challenges.
- Better lived experience partnerships at the regional implementation level of the agreement, including co-commissioning, service design and delivery, evaluation and governance at the Primary Health Network and Hospital and Health Service level. We encourage the PC to review submissions made by Consumer and Carer Peaks to the Review of PHNs Business Models and Flexible Funding.
- Better partnerships with state and territory lived experience Peak bodies in the jurisdictional oversight of the Agreement.
- Expand on the drivers affecting people’s experience of the health system.
- Making provision for all mental health commissions in Australia along with Consumer and Carer peaks formalised into the governance of the Agreement.
- The acknowledgement and discussion of harm from services.
- The discussion of the purpose of the system.