Community engagement

Patients and their families and carers are at the heart of why we do what we do. We value their lived experience, their stories, the feedback, and learnings they provide us from their experience as valued consumers and partners of our specialist, state-wide service. 

Learn more about the Patient and consumer experience at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Learn more about our patients and their families and carers stories here and here.

Neuropsychiatry works with the ALIVE Centre to ensure best-practice models for consumer and carer engagement partnerships are employed across our clinical service, education and research arms.

If you would like to learn more about the work we do in this space, please contact us via email at: neuropsychiatry@mh.org.au

We are proud to collaborate and share our medical and allied health knowledge and expertise with our clinical partners, including:

• Epworth Neuropsychiatry
• The Royal Melbourne Hospital - Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
• Cognitive Dementia Advisory Memory Service (CDAMS)

We are based in The Melbourne Biomedical precinct at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, and are fortunate to collaborate on world-leading research projects with the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne, the WEHI, The Florey, and the Melbourne Brain Centre, just to name a few.  View Our Research

Learn more about Our University partners at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

We are pleased to be able to work closely with, as well as support the work of, peak bodies and associations, through assistance with their fundraising campaigns, incoming referrals, and the provision of ongoing education, training and support to their staff and consumers, carers, and families [hyperlink to education and training tab].  

Our main community partners are: 

• Australian NPC Disease Foundation
• Huntington’s Victoria
• Dementia Australia

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Other important aspects of our work with the community includes, community management and intervention (cognitive rehabilitation, behavioural intervention, psychoeducation, counselling, medication optimisation, and referral advice

If you would like to partner with our service, as a patient, family member or carer, academic organisation, or researcher, or as a clinical service, please reach out to us at: neuropsychiatry@mh.org.au  We would love to hear from you!

Learn more education and training opportunities here.