All ages mental health services

Clinical mental health services are provided to Victorians with a serious mental illness or disorder. These services are called area mental health services (AMHS) and are operated by hospitals.

Tap the buttons below for specific mental health data across all age groups. You can filter by area mental health service.

Scroll further down for more information about the data (measures).

About the data:

The above measures look at:

  • community service hours
  • seclusion episodes.

About community service hours

The total number of clinical mental health community service hours provided to Victorians. 

About rate of seclusion episodes per 1,000 bed days

A restrictive intervention may only be used after all reasonable and less restrictive options have been tried or considered and have been found to be unsuitable in the circumstances. A restrictive intervention includes seclusion, which means the sole confinement of a person to a room or any other enclosed space from which it is not within the control of the person confined to leave.

Rate of ended seclusion episodes per 1,000 occupied bed days within inpatient units for adult, aged and child and adolescent mental health services, excluding leave, same day stays, private beds and units that do not have a seclusion room.

Notes

  • Data source: Client Management Interface/Operational Data Store. Data extracted on 10 October 2024
  • Service hour totals include the Victorian Institute for Forensic Mental Health and a range of specialist services, including brain disorder programs, dual disability services, gambling services, personality disorders services and substance use and mental illness treatment team services 
  • The statewide rate of average length of stay and seclusion episodes per 1,000 bed days includes services by the Austin Health – Statewide Child Inpatient Unit and Monash Health - Oasis Unit
  • The rate of seclusion episodes per 1000 bed days for Dandenong – Adult AMHS includes data for Casey Hospital
  • Results for the current financial year are preliminary and may change from quarter to quarter, final results will be available in November. Results from the previous financial year have been finalised
  • * No results are available.