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Published: 25 February, 2026

Data reported on includes the number of people accessing services, wait times, and workforce. This is released as part of our regular monitoring role. Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is legislated to monitor mental health and addiction services.

Published: 10 July, 2023

Practices that need to change now under the current Mental Health Act 1992: We want to see a reduction in the number of applications and outcomes granted for CCTOs, and a reduction in the rate of CCTO use. We want to see a reduction in the inequitable use of CCTOs for Māori and Pacific.

Published: 31 May, 2023

This mental health and addiction service monitoring report is the main report that monitors across the breadth of national-level data. It aims to show what is working well and what isn’t in mental health and addiction services, how this has changed over time, and advocate for improvements.

Published: 22 August, 2024

Downloads Acute options for mental health care insights paper Download Acute options for mental health care insights paper Download

Published: 1 December, 2022

Te Hiringa Mahara is producing a series of short reports during 2022 and 2023 to add our collective understanding of the wellbeing impacts of the pandemic and to provide key insights on wellbeing areas or populations of focus.

Published: 10 October, 2022

Media reporting of COVID-19 Our first report Media reporting of COVID-19 and mental health and wellbeing provides a scene-setter for the rest of the series.

Published: 5 February, 2023

We call for greater understanding of and research into the diverse needs and experiences of rural communities, and greater involvement of rural communities in planning and decision-making, particularly with rural Māori.

Published: 22 March, 2022

Key information Te Huringa 2022 was our first mental health services and addiction services monitoring report. It shows the performance of mental health services and addiction services between 2016-2017 and 2020-2021.

Published: 11 June, 2025

Our first system performance monitoring report presents an approach to monitoring the mental health and addiction system. This report provides a shared view of what a good mental health and addiction system looks like through six key system shifts. We present monitoring findings against the shifts.

Published: 30 April, 2026

pdf, 1.1 MB Download Effectiveness review of youth and rangatahi early intervention and secondary prevention docx, 619 KB Download ‘Power of co-design for rangatahi and youth mental health’ webinar We will share key findings from our new early intervention and secondary prevention effectiveness review