SNAP
Smoking: 
Nutrition:
Alcohol:
Physical Activity:

HE2ADS3:
Home: 
Education/Employment: 
Activities: 
Drugs: 
Sexuality: 
Suicide: 
Safety: 

MSE
Appearance and General behaviour: 
Motor Activity: 
Speech and Motor activity: 
Mood and affect: 
Thought and perception: 
Insight and Judgement: 
Cognition (consciousness, orientation, attention, memory, cognitive abilities): 

Conditions eligible for MHCP:

  • Acute psychotic disorders
  • Adjustment illness
  • Alcohol-use disorders
  • Bereavement disorders
  • Bipolar illness
  • Chronic psychotic disorders
  • Conduct illness
  • Depression
  • Dissociative (conversion) illness
  • Drug-use disorders
  • Enuresis
  • Eating disorders
  • Generalised anxiety
  • Hyperkinetic (attention deficit) illness
  • Mental illness, not otherwise specified
  • Mixed anxiety and depression
  • Neurasthenia
  • Panic illness
  • Phobic disorders
  • Sexual disorders
  • Sleep problems
  • Unexplained somatic complaints

Components of a MHCP:

  • patient and GP demographics and contact details
  • patient assessment including risk assessment
    • Current mental health issues, requests and hopes
    • History of current episode
    • Patient history
    • Family history
    • Current domestic and social circumstances
    • Salient substance use
    • Medications
    • Medication history (mental health) and previous treatments
    • Relevant physical examination
    • Results of relevant previous psychological and developmental testing
    • Other care plans
    • MSE and appropriate scoring tool (DASS21 or K10 etc)
    • Risk assessment
  • Provisional diagnosis and formulation
    • Predisposing factors
    • Precipitating factors
    • Perpetuating factors
    • Protective factors
  • treatment plan with identified problems, goals, intervention approach and management strategy, relapse plan
  • consent
  • review timing and outcome

MHCP Reviews:

  • date of review
  • re-administration of the screening tool used during the assessment, unless considered clinically inappropriate
  • review of the patients progress towards the goals as outlined in the treatment plan
  • modification of the documented GPMHTP if required
  • checking, reinforcing and expanding the education
  • a plan for crisis intervention and/or for relapse prevention, if appropriate and if not previously provided.