The Division of Psychiatric Services, a part of the Health Services Department, formerly the Public Health Department, replaced the Division of Mental Health in 1963. It was responsible for the Guardianship Board and Lachlan Park and Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospitals as well as other mental health services. In 1968, the Mental Health Services Commission replaced it. A Royal Derwent Hospital Board took over the management of the former Lachlan Park and Millbrook Rise Hospitals.
1945 - 1956 Division of Mental Hygiene
1956 - 1963 Division of Mental Health
1963 - 1968 Division of Psychiatric Services
1968 - 1989 The Mental Health Services Commission
1989? - Mental Health Services
Sources used to compile this entry: Director-General of Health Services: report for year 1967-8, Department of Health Services, Hobart, 1967-8; Wettenhall, RL, A Guide to Tasmanian Government Administration, Platypus Publications, Hobart, 1968, 206 pp.
Prepared by: Caroline Evans
Created: 5 March 2013, Last modified: 18 March 2014