What each letter must contain. Where they can fall short. A skeleton that works.
Working guides to the letters and reports Australian psychiatrists actually write, one per document type, cited to the requirements that govern them. Written by the people who built the 65 presets that draft them. New guides are added regularly; the library is young.
GP correspondence
- The psychiatrist's letter to the GP after an initial assessment
What a psychiatrist's letter to the referring GP must contain after an initial assessment in Australia, why letters fail, the MBS 291 angle, and a skeleton that works.
Preset: GP - Initial Assessment - The psychiatrist's review letter to the GP, and shared-care arrangements
What the psychiatrist's review letter to the GP must contain in Australia, how to write a shared-care arrangement that works, the MBS 293 angle, and a skeleton.
Preset: GP - Progress Update
Treatment, permits and shared care
Certificates and licences
- The fitness-to-drive report: assessing a psychiatric condition against the Austroads standard
What a psychiatrist's fitness-to-drive report must contain in Australia: the Austroads standard, private versus commercial, conditional licences, the reporting duty, and a skeleton.
Preset: Fitness for Licence / Registration - Medical certificates from the psychiatrist: leave, fitness for work, and how much to say
What an Australian medical certificate for leave or fitness for work must contain, what the Fair Work Act requires, mental health disclosure, and two skeletons.
Preset: Medical Certificate - Fitness for Work - The fitness-for-registration report: treating a health practitioner, and reporting to their Board
What a psychiatrist's fitness-for-registration report on a health practitioner must contain: impairment under the National Law, capacity to practise, conditions, a skeleton.
Preset: Fitness for Licence / Registration
Medico-legal and tribunals
- The medico-legal report: the expert's duty, the questions asked, and opinions that survive cross-examination
What a psychiatrist's medico-legal report must contain in Australia: the expert's duty to the court, the questions asked, facts separated from opinion, reasoning, and a skeleton.
Preset: Legal - General Medico-Legal Report - The mental health tribunal report: the criteria in the Act's words, and evidence the tribunal can weigh
What a psychiatrist's mental health tribunal report must address: each statutory criterion in the Act's words, dated risk, less restrictive alternatives, the person's views.
Preset: Tribunal - Mental Health Tribunal Report
Every one of these is a preset. The draft comes from the consult.
65 Australian letter and report types, drafted in your style, verified, on your letterhead, sent in one click.