Statewide Mental Health Infrastructure Program (SWMHIP)

Benefits 

The SWMHIP is providing a substantial increase in available inpatient beds in the NSW mental health system, providing at a minimum 167 new inpatient beds, 134 replacement beds and a minimum of 49 refurbished beds.  

The SWMHIP is also facilitating the transition of long-stay consumers with complex care needs to community-based services by delivering up to 60 purpose-built accommodation beds across NSW through the Specialist Living Support (SLS) Program. 

In addition, the SWMHIP is improving the therapeutic environment of a large number of facilities across NSW. 

This will result in:

• Better mental health, physical health and wellbeing outcomes for mental health consumers.
• Improved patient and carer satisfaction through delivery of patient centred and recovery-oriented care.
• Increased access to appropriate care.
• Reduction in number of long stay patients in NSW mental health facilities.
• Enhanced capacity and improved efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of mental health services.
• The delivery of infrastructure that is co-designed by consumers, their family, carers and staff.
• Addressing service gaps to provide appropriate care and meet future demand.
• Improved patient and staff safety (workplace health and safety, seclusion incidents). 

Scope

The SWMHIP includes a range of projects including the Therapeutic Environment Program (TEP), and individual capital projects.
 
Together these projects are delivering new statewide specialist mental health units including beds for:

• Children and adolescents
• Perinatal mothers and their babies
• Older persons
• General inpatient and civil secure units
• The transition of long stay mental health patients from hospital, and the recovery of consumers, in the community
• The forensic mental health network. 

Active projects

• Broken Hill Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Unit - Nepean Hospital
• Maitland Mental Health Rehabilitation project
• Nexus Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit
• Tamworth Mental Health Unit (Banksia)

Completed projects

• Civil Secure Unit – Campbelltown Hospital
• Hornsby Hospital Mental Health Unit
• Mother and Baby Unit – Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
• Mother and Baby Unit – Westmead Hospital
• Older Persons’ Mental Health Unit – Campbelltown Hospital
• Port Macquarie Mental Health Unit
• Prince of Wales Mental Health Intensive Care Unit
• Shoalhaven Sub-Acute Adult Mental Health Unit
• St George Hospital Sub-Acute Mental Health Unit
• Sydney Children’s Hospital’s Adolescent Mental Health Services