Mental Health Treatment Plans · for Best Practice

Mental health plans without all the paperwork.

Creating a Mental Health Treatment Plan has never been this simple. Draft your MHTP and psychologist referral together with Lyrebird and Best Practice.

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Lyrebird · Mental Health Treatment Plan Connected with Best Practice

Patient record

Medical history

Medications and allergies

Existing patient information

MHTP · generated draftReady for GP review

Assessment and riskFrom consult

Goals and treatmentFrom consult

Psychologist referralDrafted

SEE HOW IT WORKS

Never start a mental health plan from scratch.

Your patient’s history already included. Their assessment and treatment plan drafted from your consultation. Even the psychologist referral prepared. See how simple MHTPs can be with Lyrebird and Best Practice.

Lyrebird · Mental Health Treatment Plans

Sarah Mitchell ↻ 32 years 02/11 10:15am Consult in progress DictateWrite document

NotepadTranscriptProgress notePatient Summary

Type to edit notes, change format, tone, or add sections

Consult as normal

Focus on your patient while Lyrebird captures the consultation. When it sounds like a mental health consult, Lyrebird suggests starting an MHTP.

Consult · Sarah MitchellListening · 06:40

DURING THE CONSULTATION

“Thanks for telling me. Let’s talk through how you’ve been feeling, put a plan together and look at getting you in to see a psychologist.”

This sounds like a mental health consultationStart MHTP

Complete the DASS-21

Send the DASS-21 to your patient’s phone, with their number already filled in from Best Practice, or complete it together on screen. Lyrebird scores it automatically and adds the result to the plan.

DASS-21 · Sarah MitchellScored automatically

Sent to 0412 000 218Number from Best Practice

Depression12Mild

Anxiety12Moderate

Stress20Moderate

21 of 21 answeredAdded to plan

Generate the plan and referral

With a click, Lyrebird drafts the MHTP and psychologist referral together, using your consultation, the DASS-21 result and your patient’s history from Best Practice.

Mental Health Treatment PlanReady for review

Patient detailsAdded from Best Practice

Patient: Sarah Mitchell, 32
Medical history: Anxiety (2019), insomnia
Medications and allergies: Sertraline 50 mg daily · Penicillin allergy

MHTP and referralDrafted from consult

Presenting issues: Low mood, anxiety and poor sleep for 3 months
Goals and treatment: Improve sleep and return to exercise. Psychology sessions.
Psychologist referral: Dr Hannah Lee, Clinical Psychologist

7 of 7 sections covered

Review & save to BP

Review and edit each section, then confirm the checklist Medicare requires. Save the plan, referral and DASS-21 to Correspondence Out in Best Practice with a click.

Best Practice · Patient recordSaved to BP

SARAH MITCHELL

Correspondence Out

Mental Health Treatment PlanMBS 2700 · 2 November 2026

Psychologist referralDr Hannah Lee · 2 November 2026

DASS-21Completed questionnaire · 2 November 2026

MHTP, referral and DASS-21Save to BP

A better way to plan mental health care

Less paperwork. More care.

Creating a Mental Health Treatment Plan shouldn’t mean spending your consultation working through a template. With Lyrebird, it doesn’t have to.

Less to piece together.

Your patient’s history from Best Practice, their assessment and everything discussed during the consultation, brought together in one draft.

More focus on your patient.

Spend less time typing through a template and more time listening, assessing and planning care with your patient.

Less left for later.

Finish your consultation with the MHTP and psychologist referral drafted and ready to review, rather than another round of paperwork afterwards.

Engineered for clinical confidence

Connected by design.Controlled by you.

We’ve thoughtfully designed our integrations so you can experience the benefits of connected clinical systems, with confidence in how your information is handled and control over clinical decisions.

Purpose-built connections

Lyrebird exchanges information through secure, purpose-built integrations with Best Practice and other clinical systems, rather than giving AI unrestricted access to navigate your clinical software.

Access for a defined purpose

Specific systems, specific functions. Each integration is designed with defined permissions and predictable information flows, rather than open-ended access.

Clinical decisions stay with you

You lead the assessment, evaluate risk and agree on treatment with your patient. Lyrebird helps prepare the documentation for you to review, edit and approve before saving it to the clinical record.

The power of connection

Familiar clinical systems.Entirely new possibilities.

Discover a new way of working when the clinical systems you already trust work together through Lyrebird.

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Experience it yourself

Your next mental health plan could be this simple.

Try Lyrebird with Best Practice and experience a simpler way to create Mental Health Treatment Plans and psychologist referrals.

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Best Practice · Patient record

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Lyrebird · MHTP✓ Saved to BP

MHTP · Sarah Mitchell, 32

Assessment and treatment plan✓ Reviewed

Psychologist referral✓ Saved to BP

DASS-21 assessment✓ Filed

Correspondence Out✓ Saved

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Can Lyrebird create a Mental Health Treatment Plan using information from Best Practice?

Yes. Lyrebird brings your patient’s medical history, medications, allergies and previous plans from Best Practice into the MHTP. It then uses what’s discussed during the consultation to draft the rest, including the history, mental state examination, risk assessment, formulation and diagnosis, goals and crisis plan.

Does Lyrebird help with Medicare’s MHTP requirements?

Lyrebird’s MHTP template is structured around the elements Medicare requires, and shows which sections still need to be covered during the consultation. Before saving, you confirm a short checklist covering consent, psychoeducation, discussion of the assessment and plan, and an agreed review date. The GP remains responsible for checking the plan meets the applicable MBS requirements before billing.

Can my patient complete the DASS-21 questionnaire on their phone?

Yes. You can send the DASS-21 to your patient’s mobile, with their number filled in from Best Practice, or complete it with them on screen. Lyrebird scores it automatically, adds the result to the plan and saves the completed form to Correspondence Out. Other measures, such as the K10, aren’t yet available as a form to send, but are captured if discussed during the consultation.

Can Lyrebird generate a psychologist referral as part of the same consultation?

Yes. Lyrebird drafts the psychologist referral alongside the MHTP, using the same consultation and patient information, so you don’t need to re-enter the reason for referral, diagnosis, medications or history.

Do I still need to review and complete the MHTP myself?

Yes. Lyrebird prepares the draft, but you lead the assessment and remain responsible for reviewing each section, making any changes and approving the plan before it’s saved. Nothing reaches the patient’s record until you finalise it.

Where are the completed documents saved?

Once reviewed, the MHTP, psychologist referral and completed DASS-21 save directly to Correspondence Out in the patient’s Best Practice record, without downloading, copying or manually filing anything.

Can I use Lyrebird for MHTP reviews?

Since 1 November 2025, MHTP reviews are billed as standard time-based consultations rather than a dedicated review item. Lyrebird captures the review consultation as it would any other, with your patient’s existing plan and history from Best Practice available alongside it.