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Published: 29 October, 2024

Last week we welcomed the unanimous passing of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) (Improving Mental Health Outcomes) Amendment Bill. This amendment requires that the Minister for Mental Health produce a mental health and wellbeing strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand within 12 months.

Published: 18 February, 2025

Fewer people accessed specialist mental health and addiction services in the year from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 than in previous years.

Published: 30 September, 2024

Funding of a new Child and Youth Mental Health and Addiction Prevalence survey was welcomed by Te Hiringa Mahara. The survey is keeping with a recommendation we made to first survey rangatahi and young people, before extending a prevalence study to the wider population.

Published: 1 November, 2023

Tell us about your experience accessing, or trying to access, mental health and addiction services.

Published: 12 September, 2023

We are delighted to announce that we will be holding a series of webinars where we will share key findings as well as our calls to action from our recent mental health and addiction service monitoring reports.

Published: 1 July, 2021

Over April and May 2020, the Initial Commission sought a range of views to start developing an outcomes framework for mental health and wellbeing.

Published: 28 October, 2021

2021 - The Access and Choice Programme progress report found that the programme has put much-needed investment into primary and community care in line with many of the recommendations in He Ara Oranga: Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction, enabling important services to be provided.

Published: 8 August, 2025

We’ve put the key mental health and addiction findings from the NZ Health Survey 2023/2024 into one, easy to read summary. We intend for this information to be used as evidence to support planning and investment, and to direct resources where they are most needed to improve mental health and

Published: 9 April, 2026

No summary available

Published: 29 May, 2025

The following two data summaries include information and data on addiction services and access to services.