One of the many challenges to achieving better mental health systems and outcomes is workforce; including capability, capacity and change readiness. Key issues impacting on the quality, supply, distribution and structure of the mental health workforce include workforce shortages across key provider types, and in rural and remote areas; barriers to attraction and recruitment into mental health careers; and challenges to retention of existing staff. Further, these reforms intend to shift the paradigm away from traditional medicalised approaches, with greater emphasis being placed on community health and lived experience. Opportunities exist in terms of innovative workforce interventions, as well as the potential brought about by disruptive digital mental health technologies.

Join us for a Q&A-style webinar which will explore these challenges and possibilities, while focusing on practical ideas and implementable workforce solutions. The panel will feature leading global and local mental health and workforce experts who will explore topics such as the future of work, worker and workplace; the role of leaders and system stewards in driving change; as well as considering how leaders should be thinking about workforce elements such as employee experience.

Panellists

• Dr Melanie Kohn - Assistant Deputy Minister, Mental Health and Addictions at Ministry of Health, Ontario, Canada
• Dr Leanne Beagley, Chief Executive officer at Mental Health Australia
• Cameron Pitt, Workforce Transformation Specialist at Deloitte Australia

Host

• Dr Stephanie Allen, Global Healthcare Lead at Deloitte Australia

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In celebration of Mental Health Week 2021, we hosted the second webinar in our Mental Health series which was a Q&A-style webinar where we explored funding and governance challenges and possibilities, while focusing on practical ideas and implementable solutions. The panel featured leading funding and governance experts who explored topics such as system stewardship, living experience leadership, clarity of roles and responsibilities, intra-and inter-organisational governance and funding model options.

Panellists

• John Brodgen AM, Chair of Lifeline Australia
• Fran Thorn, ex Secretary of Department of Health and Department of Human Services Victoria
• James Downie, CEO of the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA)

Opening Remarks

• Luke Baxby, National Healthcare Lead at Deloitte Australia

Host

• Mark Dingle, Partner Deloitte Australia (and Board Member, UnitingCare Australia)

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History shows us that many change programs fail or do not meet expectations. So, what is it that we can do differently across mental health reform to build on implementation lessons of the past, and support the successful delivery of our future mental health system?

The final session in our mental health reform series was a Q&A-style webinar where we explored change management and implementation challenges and possibilities, while focusing on practical ideas and implementable solutions. The panel featured leading mental health and transformation experts who explored topics such as change leadership, behaviour-first change, change-mindsets, and planning and implementation fundamentals.

Panellists

• Lucinda Brogden AM, Chair of the National Mental Health Commission
• Gill Callister, Chief Executive Officer of Mind Australia
• Bill Eggers, Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Government Insights

Opening Remarks

• Amelia Walters, Youth Advisor to the headspace board

Host

• Bonnie Rowe, Mental Health Advisory Lead Director, Deloitte Australia

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It is fair to say, there is a lot happening in mental health reform.The question now is, how are we measuring the impact of all this reform in order to support its ongoing implementation?

Deloitte Australia and Mind Australia partnered together to present a webinar that considered:

• Who decides what is being measured?
• How should measurement (i.e. monitoring and evaluation) be resourced?
• What should happen with evidence that is gathered, and how can it be shared to enhance our collective knowledge about what works, and what doesn’t?

This fourth and bonus webinar in our Mental Health Reform series was a Q&A-style webinar where we explored these questions, while focusing on practical ideas and implementable monitoring and evaluation solutions. The panel featured leading mental health and evaluation experts who explored topics such as setting and aligning on outcomes, the role of lived/living experience in evaluation, roles and responsibilities across the system, as well as transparency and knowledge sharing.

Panellists

• Dr Louise Byrne, Lived Experience researcher at RMIT University
• Leilani Darwin, CEO and Founder at First Nations Co
• Nicola Ballenden, Executive Director Research, Advocacy and Policy Development at Mind Australia

Host

• Luke Condon, Partner and Senior Evaluator at Deloitte Access Economics

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