Monash Health - Psychiatric Triage Service

Monash Health provides assessment, treatment, and high quality care to people experiencing mental health problems. The psychiatry services available include a range of inpatient and community-based mental health services depending on the individuals need.

The Monash Psychiatric Triage Service is suitable for individuals, carers, and health professionals to discuss specialist mental health services in this area. The triage service can organise both urgent and non-urgent assessments.

The usual mental health services are for people aged 0-64 years. However, after hours support is also offered to people aged 65 years and over.

You can read more about the Monash Health Psychiatric triage service by following the link below to "visit our website".

This service is for anyone living in Victoria's Southern Health catchment area including Dandenong, Casey, Cardinia, Monash, Bayside, and Kingston.

To ensure your suburb is in the correct catchment for Monash Health, please visit the Victorian Government website Find a Mental Health Service and search via your suburb http://www3.health.vic.gov.au/... In the alphabet listed please choose the letter corresponding to the first letter in your suburb or town. This will take you to a list of suburbs/towns starting with this letter. Then select from child and adolescent services (0 - 18 years), adult services (16 - 64 years), aged services (65 plus years) and disability services in your suburb/town. Once you have selected this, you will be provided with the psychiatric triage number for your location.

Monash Health's Psychiatric Triage Service is free for those who meet eligibility criteria.