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Published: 18 February, 2025

We used an extract date of 23 October 2024, in line with the best practice of waiting 3 months or more from reference year end.  Related works Find all of our service monitoring products released in 2025.

Published: 30 September, 2026

Note for editors:   The Office of the Director of Mental Health and Addiction Services Regulatory Report released today covers 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025.

Published: May 2026

This report focuses on crisis responses over a five-year period, from January 2020 to December 2024. Crisis responses form a critical function in ensuring people and whānau who are experiencing crisis get the urgent support they need.

Published: August 2025

  The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Act 2020 was passed in June 2020, and we began to fulfil our new legislative functions in February 2021.  Functions of the Mental Health Commissioner transferred to the new organisation at this time.

Published: 5 June, 2024

  Updated online He Ara Āwhina monitoring dashboard Downloads Kua Timata Te Haerenga report - June 2024 Download Kua Timata Te Haerenga report - June 2024 Download Kua Timata He Haerenga report summary - June 2024 Download Kua Timata Te Haerenga report summary Te Reo Māori June 2024 Download Kua

Published: May 2026

In the 2026 assessment, we report there has been no improvement in any of the 22 measures we looked at, for people who interact with specialist mental health and addiction services, between 2018 and 2023.

Published: 18 February, 2025

Data released today by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission shows that fewer people accessed specialist mental health and addiction services in the year from July 2023 to June 2024 than in previous years.

Published: January 2026

In 2025 we finalised an updated organisational strategy. This covers the four years to 2029 and sets out how we will achieve our vision and mission. The 2025-2029 Statement of Intent reflects this refreshed direction.

Published: January 2026

)  Kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services infographic (July 2025) Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun: Mental health and addiction service monitoring report (June 2024) Te Huringa Tuarua: Kaupapa Māori services report (June 2023)  Beyond the reports that we publish, we

Published: August 2026

See our 2026 monitoring   Mental health and substance use data summary: key findings from the NZ Health Survey 2024/2025 This summary is a synthesis of relevant population level findings from the NZ Health Survey 2024/2025.