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Published: 25 February, 2026

/2025. 69.6 per cent of young people aged 0-18 years met the target of people accessing specialist services seen within three weeks (set at 80%) NZ Health Survey 2024/2025 shows almost 23% of young people experienced high or very high levels of psychological distress in 2024/2025.  The number

Published: 18 February, 2025

2024, in line with the best practice of waiting 3 months or more from reference year end.  Download Access to specialist mental health and addiction services, 2023/24 factsheet pdf, 342 KB Download Related works Find all of our service monitoring products released in 2025.

Published: 18 February, 2025

Government and health agencies to accelerate improvement in a range of critical areas. This included a call for Health NZ to develop a mental health and addiction workforce plan to address service capacity and workforce shortages by June 2025. “We will be keeping a close watch on access and will

Published: 1 October, 2020

measures paper - May 2024 (PDF 424KB) Discontinued measures paper - May 2024 (Word 2.4MB) Added measures 2025 We continue to refine the measure set to ensure it remains relevant and current to monitor mental health and addiction services. We made some additions to the He Ara Āwhina measure set in 2024

Published: June 2026

Performance Expectations Annual reports Statement of Intent (SOI) Statement of Intent 2025 - 2029  This Statement of Intent was prepared following a strategic review.  It provides a view on our strategic priorities, how we work and what we will deliver over the next four years. The current SOI

Published: 16 June, 2026

2025 pdf, 1.9 MB Download Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy - Advice, June 2025 pdf, 864 KB Download Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy - Advice, May 2025 pdf, 185 KB Download 2024 submissions: Downloads Mental Health Bill submission, December 2024 pdf, 284 KB Download Treaty Principles Bill

Published: June 2026

System performance monitoring report 2026 downloads Download or read a copy of the full report, summary and alternative formats. Report 2025 System performance monitoring report Our initial monitoring findings showed that while there were some early positive movements in some areas, for example

Published: 16 June, 2026

has been made overall, inequity for some groups requires urgent attention. Progress has been inconsistent across the six shifts, and the benefits are not reaching people with the highest mental health needs. Read our 2025 system performance report Downloads System performance monitoring 2026

Published: 14 May, 2026

fruit and vegetables to keep costs down; and Māori wellbeing, like connection to iwi and whānau wellbeing. Read and download the 2025 wellbeing assessment Downloads Assessment of wellbeing for people who interact with services - May 2026 pdf, 2 MB Download Wellbeing for people who interact with services methodology report 2026 docx, 3.2 MB Download

Published: 8 April, 2026

of the strategy. This was provided in May and June 2025, and then in February 2026. In the interest of transparency, and to support the development of the Strategy, that advice is now publicly available in the links below.    In May 2025, we told the Minister and Ministry