Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data (PRIMHD)

www.moh.govt.nz/primhd

What is PRIMHD?

PRIMHD, (pronounced “primed”), is the Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data and is a Ministry of Health project to create a single national mental health information collection of service activity and, for the first time, outcomes data.

PRIMHD will create a picture of what services are being provided, who is providing the services, and what outcomes are being achieved for consumers, across New Zealand’s mental health sector.

PRIMHD will integrate the existing Mental Health Information National Collection (MHINC) with the Mental Health Standard Measures of Assessment and Recovery initiative (MH-SMART) to form a single national data collection for mental health and addiction. The PRIMHD collection differs from MHINC because it will collect both service activity data (such as the number of community contacts made by providers with unique consumers) as well as information on outcomes at local, regional and national levels.

PRIMHD will produce reports, based on the data received from District Health Boards (DHBs) and non-government organisations (NGOs), to enable better quality service planning and decision-making by mental health and addiction service providers, at the local, regional and national levels.

These webpages support DHBs and NGOs with information about sending their data to PRIMHD; how PRIMHD works; and what information PRIMHD produces.

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Page last updated: 20 November 2009