Integrating care for chronic mental ill-health

Our paper focuses on the implementation in practice of an integrated care policy for severe and complex mental ill-health: Partners in Recovery. In order to be effective care for people experiencing chronic and complex mental ill-health must be supported by a framework which takes in multiple services whose focus extends throughout and beyond the health system (for example, targeted mental health, medical care, social care, housing). In Australia this landscape is populated by services whose priorities and policy frameworks are disconnected. Services working within the same policy environment also frequently compete with each other for funding, further complicating the integration of services for the benefit of consumers

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