Page 3566 - Week 11 - Thursday, 24 September 2015

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(3) How many Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff are projected to work in each mental health program each year over the forward estimates.

Mr Corbell: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) (a) Actual Mental Health expenses for the past 14 years and the budget for 2015-16 is at Attachment A.

(b) ACT Health does not budget at this level across the forward estimates.

(2) ACT Health does not budget to program level across the forward estimates. A list of programs/services is provided at Attachment B, along with the 2015-16 budgeted expenses and FTE.

A number of Commonwealth funded mental health programs operate in the ACT. Funding information for these national programs is unable to be quantified by the ACT.

Funding level reductions to some of the community sector organisations are attributable to programs transitioning to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). These ACT Government funds for mental health consumers with a psychosocial disability remain available to these people through the new mechanism of the NDIS.

(3) Refer to Attachment B.

Attachment A

Mental Health Expenses

Note: these expenses include both direct mental health expenses and overheads. Overheads include infrastructure costs, Office of the Director-General, information technology, human resources and finance activities.

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