Provider identified to deliver National Early Intervention Service

The Government has announced St Vincent’s Health Australia to deliver a new free digital mental health service, Medicare Mental Health Check In, which launched on 1 January 2026.

Medicare Mental Health Check In is a new digital mental health service designed to support mental wellbeing.
Australians will now have access to a new free digital mental health self-help tools and Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), delivered by trained professionals, via phone or video, with Medicare Mental Health Check In. Medicare Mental Health Check In has been designed in consultation with people with lived experience and more than 90 organisations working in mental health.

It will be available to anyone aged over 16 without the need for a referral from a GP.

You can find the Medicare Mental Health Check In website here.