under the australian better access initiative following the preparation of a mental health treatment plan gps are able to refer patients to clinical psychologists allied mental health professionals or appropriately trained gps providing focused psychological strategy fps services whilst the better access initiative has met some challenges this is a good example of building greater capacity for effective treatment from a primary care level promoting coordination between primary carers and specialists to provide good treatment and promoting psychological therapies as an appropriate treatment for primary care practitioners to refer to in many cases services at different intensities are likely provided slightly outside of primary care settings with or without coordination or management by a primary care practitioner and require some investments in new interventions especially at the lower intensity end