Mental Health in the Emergency Department Summit - New Zealand

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MIHI WHAKATAU
Welcome and Opening
Mr Josiah Tualamali’i – MC, Pasifika Youth Advocate
Dr John Bonning – President-Elect, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM)
Ms Taimi Allan – CEO, Changing Minds
Dr Vinay Lakra – President-Elect, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
Dr Sue Mackersey – Board Member, RANZCP

Session One seeks to provide context for the Summit, building a joint understanding of the numbers that represent the problem.

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Facilitator: Dr Kate Allan, Associate Clinical Director Emergency Medicine, Waitemata DHB (North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals)
 
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Dr Inia Tomas – Co-Chair, Manaaki Mana Steering Group (ACEM)/Vanessa Thornton
Ms Anna Tonks – Senior Health Promotion and Policy Advisor, NZ Drug Foundation
Dr Paul Vroegop – Clinical Head of Psychological Medicine, Clinical Lead of Chronic Pain, Paediatric Consultant Liaison Team, Counties Manukau District Health Board, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (RANZCP)
Professor Drew Richardson – ANU Medical School, Senior Staff Specialist, Canberra Hospital (ACEM)

Session Two builds an understanding of how mental health crises are managed in the emergency department from a range of different perspectives, including clinicians, consumers and carers.

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Facilitator: Dr Clare Skinner – Director of Emergency Medicine, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (ACEM)
 
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Video – Patient Experience
Dr Scott Orman – Emergency Medicine Specialist (ACEM)
Dr Craig Ellis – Deputy Medical Director, St John
Senior Sergeant Matt Morris – District Shift Commander, New Zealand Police
Ms Jo King – Chair, College of Emergency Nurses New Zealand (CENNZ)
Ms Caro Swanson – Principal Advisor, Mental Health and Service User Lead, Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui (Te Pou), Mental Health Consumer
Dr Clive Bensemann – Clinical Lead Integrated Care Mental Health & Addictions Counties Manukau District Health Board National Clinical Lead Health Quality & Safety Commission

Session Three sets out to understand the policy context and how the government and key contributors to policy anticipate the impacts for mental health.

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Facilitator: Ms Maria Baker – CEO, Te Rau Ora
 
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Ms Robyn Shearer – Deputy Director-General Mental Health and Addiction, Ministry of Health
Mr Josiah Tualamali’I – Pasifika Youth Advocate
Mr Warren Young – General Manager, Independent Police Conduct Authority
Dr Ruth Cunningham – Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director of the Cancer and Chronic Conditions Research Group (NZCPHM)
Dr Susanna Every-Palmer – Director of Area Mental Health Services – Central Regional Forensic and Rehabilitation Service, Head of Department, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago (RANZCP)
Dr John Bonning – President-Elect, ACEM
Mr Brian Vickers – Consumer Advisor, Northland District Health Board (RANZCP)
Mr Wi Keelan – Kaumātua and Māori Cultural Advisor, Mental Health and Addiction Quality Improvement Programme, Health Quality & Safety Commission (RANZCP)
 

Session Four sets out to explore how innovative programmes in New Zealand, and abroad, might impact the ways in which emergency departments function.

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Facilitator: Dr Simon Judkins – President, ACEM
  
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Ms Emma Wood – National Manager – Practice, Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui (Te Pou)
Dr Ruth Large – Emergency Physician, Rural Hospitalist, Clinical Director Information Services and Virtual Health Care, Waikato District Health Board
Ms Helen Lockett – Strategic Lead, Equally Well
Ms Marion Blake – CEO, Platform Charitable Trust
Dr Susanna Galea-Singer – Director and Head of Division Specialist Mental Health & Addiction Services, Waitemata District Health Board (RANZCP)
Dr Alain Marcuse – Consultant Psychiatrist, Crisis Resolution Services (RANZCP)

Dr Clare Skinner – Director of Emergency Medicine, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (ACEM), introducing the Policy Soapbox
 
Participants from the Summit are invited to give one or two-minute presentations about their ideas for policy change.

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Heidi Baker, SMO Emergency, Starship Childrens Hospital & AED,  Auckland District Health Board
Diana Kopua, Psychiatrist, Hauora Tairāwhiti
 

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Key Priorities and Ways Forward
Facilitators:
Mr Jason Carpenter – Senior Consultant, Allen and Clarke
Mr Josiah Tualamali’i – Pasifika Youth Advocate
 
Wrap Up
Dr Mark Lawrence – Chair of the New Zealand National Committee, Tu Te
Akaaka Roa, RANZCP
Dr John Bonning – President-Elect, ACEM

View the full Summit program here.