Clinical Applications Unit

The CAU will work with local clinicians and use local research findings to develop care coordination packages for mental health patients who have mulitple health care needs.

Better coordination of care within and between agencies will improve patient quality of life and spend health dollars more effectively.

Our first launched package, ‘Healthy babies for mothers with serious mental illness’, coordinates the care of these pregnant women to help optimise birth outcomes and early parenting.

Projects currently under development include:

• new ways of helping women with schizophrenia and their children
• more streamlined care and improved follow-up for people who self-harm
• a cancer care coordination project for mental health consumers
• a project to coordinate care for people with serious mental illness who are at increased risk of cardiovascular diseases

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