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Guidelines and Policies

Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI)
ACI brings patients, clinicians and managers together to support the design and implementation of innovation in healthcare.
Mental Health Patient Safety Program CEC- NSW Clinical Excellence Commission
The Clinical Excellence Commission is committed to partnering with Local Health Districts and Specialty Health Networks to design and implement the NSW Mental Health Patient Safety Program. This important piece of work aims to create the organisational conditions that supports teams to continuously improve the safety and quality of mental health care
Mental Health First Aid clinical guidelines
Mental Health First Aid Australia Provides high quality, evidence-based mental health first aid education to everyone. Mental Health First Aid is a national not-for-profit health promotion charity focused on mental health training and research. MHFA Australia operates under the governance of a Board of Directors and derives funding from government and philanthropic grants, public donations and through its education training programs.
NICE Mental health and wellbeing
NICE Mental health and wellbeing uses the best available evidence to develop recommendations that guide decisions in health, public health and social care. All NICE products on mental health and wellbeing. Includes any guidance, advice, NICE Pathways and quality standards.

Guidelines on the management of co-occurring alcohol and other drug and mental health conditions in alcohol and other drug treatment settings by University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health
Call Number: Print report (also available online)
ISBN: 9781742105352
Publication Date: 2022
These Guidelines aim to provide alcohol and other drug (AOD) workers with evidence-based information to assist with the management of co-occurring AOD and mental health conditions. They represent an update and revision of the second edition of these Guidelines, published in 2016. It is a recommendation of these Guidelines that all clients of AOD treatment services be screened and assessed for co-occurring mental disorders as part of routine clinical care.