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Practice for sale formTwo new service providers are now delivering South Western Sydney PHN’s Clinical Suicide Prevention Service. This improves access to appropriate, safe, and timely clinical care for people at low-to-moderate risk of suicide following a suicide attempt or experiencing a suicidal crisis.
Community Links Wellbeing is providing services in Wollondilly and Wingecarribee Shires. One Door Mental Health is delivering services in Camden, Campbelltown, Liverpool, Fairfield, and Bankstown local government areas. This follows a period of transition from former provider Grand Pacific Health.
Who can access the service?
The Clinical Suicide Prevention Service provides free psychological therapies for people who:
- have continued suicidal ideation after discharge from acute services
- present at a GP clinic after a suicide attempt
- present to a GP with persistent suicidal ideation
Patients require a referral from either a GP or one of South Western Sydney Local Health District’s mental health teams to access the service.
How to refer patients
GPs can refer their patients to the service by contacting SWSPHN’s Mental Health Central Intake. Visit the SWSPHN Central Intake page for more information on how to refer your patients.
About the service providers
Community Links Wellbeing is a not-for-profit community organisation working across Camden, Wollondilly, and Wingecarribee. It supports locals through community development, events, groups, workshops, youth programs, crisis support, carer support, family support, allied health, and mental health services.
One Door Mental Health is a leading mental health provider. It specialises in anxiety and depression, as well as severe and persistent mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosis, schizoaffective disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
A message from the CEO
South Western Sydney PHN CEO, Dr Keith McDonald PhD, said the Clinical Suicide Prevention Service had provided accessible and sensitive individual psychological therapy services across the region since July 2017.
Dr McDonald thanked Grand Pacific Health for its commitment to delivering the service over the past almost two years. He also welcomed Community Links Wellbeing and One Door Mental Health as the new service providers.
“This service aims to help clients through the healing process with supports appropriate to their need,” Dr McDonald said. “This might include identifying treatment goals, safety planning, psychological therapy, or referrals to longer-term services if needed.
“We’re looking forward to working with Community Links Wellbeing and One Door Mental Health to ensure this service continues to provide effective and efficient care. This will help meet the urgent needs of people in our community at risk of suicide.”
If you, or someone you know, is having suicidal thoughts, talking about self-harm, or is noticeably in serious distress, call Triple Zero (000). Alternatively, contact the NSW Mental Health Access Line on 1800 011 511.
Find out more about the Clinical Suicide Prevention Service.