Potential solutions

Declare BPD as a PUBLIC HEALTH PRIORITY in Australia.
To develop a POPULATION HEALTH APPROACH to care for BPD.
Establish a NATIONAL TRAINING FRAMEWORK for BPD in collaboration with existing BPD training organizations and initiatives e.g. Spectrum, NEA-BPD, Project Air, Australian BPD Foundation (A national training framework should address the needs of mental health workforce and primary sector to work with people with BPD and their families/carers. It should also train peer consumer and carer workers to provide peer support and to lead peer support groups under supervision of a clinician).
Establish state-wide/territory wide specialist centres of clinical excellence for BPD (such as Spectrum in Victoria) in every single state and territory of Australia.
Establish a National Research centre for BPD.
Develop models of care for BPD in health services.
Support the Australian BPD Foundation as the BPD awareness raising organization, advocate and provider of information about education and services for people with BPD and their families/carers.
Establish a National Suicide Registry for BPD in order to estimate the true mortality rates for BPD in Australia.
Commission a National BPD treatment implementation research.
Establish a National Registry of all accredited and evidence based treatment providers for BPD and make all clinicians, BPD patients and their families should have access to such a registry to enable access to currently existing treatment resources.

Please email your thoughts, comments, and feedback to bpd_national_strategy@bpdfoundation.org.au