Ambulatory mental health care service

A specialised mental health service that provides services to people who are not currently admitted to a mental health admitted or residential service. Services are delivered by health professionals with specialist mental health qualifications or training. Ambulatory mental health services include:

• community-based crisis assessment and treatment teams,
• day programs,
• mental health outpatient clinics provided by either hospital or community-based services,
• child and adolescent outpatient and community teams,
• social and living skills programs,
• psychogeriatric assessment services,
• hospital-based consultation-liaison and in-reach services to admitted patients in non-psychiatric and hospital emergency settings,
• ambulatory-equivalent same day separations,
• home based treatment services,
• hospital based outreach services.