AADPA | Australian ADHD Professionals Association |
AAPi | Australian Association of Psychologists Inc. |
ACCHO | Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation |
ADHD | Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
AHPRA | Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency |
AOD | Alcohol and other drugs |
APS | Australian Psychological Society |
Better Access | Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners through the MBS |
CALD | culturally and linguistically diverse |
Clinical practice guideline | Australian evidence-based clinical practice guideline for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity (AADPA) |
CMHN | Credentialed Mental Health Nurse/s |
Committee | Senate Community Affairs References Committee |
Consumer companion guide | Australian evidence-based clinical practice guideline for ADHD: consumer companion guide (AADPA) |
CPD | continuing professional development |
DACCP | Dundee ADHD Clinical Care Pathway |
Deloitte | Deloitte Access Economics |
Disability Royal Commission | Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (2023) |
Disability Standards | Disability Standards for Education 2005 |
DPS | Department of Parliamentary Services |
DSM-5 | American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition |
EMSN | Extended Medicare Safety Net |
GP | general practitioner |
GPMHSC | General Practitioners Mental Health Standards Collaboration (RACGP) |
HCCA | Health Care Consumers' Association |
Health and Aged Care | Department of Health and Aged Care |
ICD-11 | World Health Organisation, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 11th revision |
IEP/s | Individual Education Plan/s |
IUIH | Institute for Urban Indigenous Health |
MBS | Medicare Benefits Schedule |
MRFF | Medical Research Future Fund |
NACCHO | National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation |
NCCD | Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability |
NDIA | National Disability Insurance Agency |
NDIS | National Disability Insurance Scheme |
NDIS Act | National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 |
NDSP | National Disability Support Partners |
NFPP | New Forest Parenting Program (UK) |
NHMRC | National Health and Medical Research Council |
NHS | National Health Service (UK) |
NICE | National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK) |
NP—MH | Nurse Practitioner/s – Mental Health |
NSW | New South Wales |
PBS | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme |
PHAA | Public Health Association of Australia |
PHN/s | Primary Health Network/s |
RACGP | Royal Australian College of General Practitioners |
RACP | The Royal Australasian College of Physicians |
RANZCP | Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists |
RTPM | Real Time Prescription Monitoring |
SRS | Student Resource Standard |
TGA | Therapeutic Goods Administration |
UK | United Kingdom |
UNCRPD | United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
WA | Western Australia |
WA Health | Western Australia's public health system comprising Department of Health, Child and Adolescent Health Service, North Metropolitan Health Service, South Metropolitan Health Service, East Metropolitan Health Service, WA Country Health Service, Health Support Services, PathWest and the Quadriplegic Centre |