Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7424

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This grant seeks to establish and operate a centralised tele-psychology and tele-psychiatry service (the Centralised Service) by creating a pool of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists to support the clinical capacity of Medicare Mental Health Centres as part of a multidisciplinary team. 

The Centralised Service should work with Centres to safely and appropriately support the needs of people with complex mental health needs through collaborative clinical care provision. 

The Centralised Service must provide primary psychology and psychiatry consultations (consumer facing services) and secondary psychiatry consultations (health professional services). 

The Centralised Service must align with the National Service Model for Centres and strong clinical governance processes and clear guidance for working with centres will be necessary to ensure safe and quality collaborative care arrangements. 

Services must be accessible at no cost, available via appointment during standard business hours with after-hours on-call availability for urgent unavoidable cases.  

It is expected that the Centralised Service will commence operation from 1 July 2025 until 30 June 2028. 

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types: 

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)
• Company 
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority 
• Corporate State or Territory Entity 
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Local Government
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Statutory Entity
• Partnership 

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above. 

Applications from consortia are acceptable, providing there is a lead organisation that is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above. 

Applications can only be accepted from:  

• organisations with experience in delivering mental health services via telehealth 
• organisations who have an understanding of various state and territory prescribing rules, including for interstate prescribers
• Australian entities. 

$20,744,000.00

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