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Broader focus on wellbeing needed to understand COVID-19 impacts
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A narrow focus on mental health may prevent us from understanding the broader wellbeing impacts of COVID-19 in Aotearoa, Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission - has found in its first report on the impact of the pandemic on wellbeing. “For people to flourish and experience
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Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever
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Hiringa Mahara. Addressing the underlying causes behind poorer mental health for youth is an urgent priority. For example, households with young people residing in them are less likely to have enough income to meet everyday needs than households without young people present. What is clear from the
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New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report
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picture of the system available. More New Zealanders are accessing mental health or addiction support from a GP or other primary health provider. The Access and Choice programme, newly established in 2019/20, provided support to around 186,000 people in 2022/23. However, the number of people
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Collective effort will ensure Auditor General’s recommendations on mental health support for rangatahi and young people hit the mark
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; “It is very encouraging to see other agencies taking up these issues and considering how they contribute. We welcome the report from the Auditor General and are very pleased to see he has committed to following up.”
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The Initial Commission reporting
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Rongo Ake is a report from the Initial Commission that assesses progress of the Government’s response to He Ara Oranga, the inquiry into mental health and addiction, addresses the question: “how is system transformation progressing?”, and asks: what progress is government making in its response to He
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Targeted vaccination approaches needed in the face of Omicron variant
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Commission. January figures from the Ministry of Health indicate that mental health service users have full vaccination rates that are 9% lower than the general population, and rates amongst addiction service users are 19% lower than the general population. The figures for Māori are also concerning
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Te Huringa: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring Reports 2022
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increased over the past five years. Despite calls in 2018 from He Ara Oranga to minimise coercive treatment, our measures show an increase in the use of solitary confinement (seclusion) and no decrease in the use of community treatment orders. Watch our NZ Sign Language Te Huringa: Change and
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More deliberate focus needed to ensure all people in Aotearoa experience good wellbeing
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their communities are not. “As a country, we need to address this. The He Ara Oranga report from the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction highlighted that mental wellbeing is deeply connected to wider wellbeing in our society. People called for this understanding to be embedded
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Covid-19 Insights Series - Supporting wellbeing after a crisis
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lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic can help support the mental health and wellbeing of communities recovering from other crises, like Cyclone Gabrielle. The report shows the following: Help provided will need to target people who already experience disadvantage, including people and whānau
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Karen Orsborn appointed as Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Chief Executive
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from 1 July after leading the Commission’s establishment efforts as Acting Chief Executive since it opened in February. Throughout 2020, she also led the early set-up phase as Head of Secretariat for the Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (Initial Commission). “It’s with great pleasure I