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Published: 1 December, 2022

It is important that our understanding of the pandemic, and our planning for the future – both responding to crises and supporting wider wellbeing – recognises that older people are not one monolithic group.

Published: 8 June, 2023

   “Specifically, it focuses on connectedness, a core aspect of wellbeing for Pacific peoples, and how connectedness was both impacted by the pandemic and a key feature in the how Pacific community responses served to support families and helped mitigate the challenges,” says Te Hiringa Mahara

Published: 29 May, 2025

Data reported on includes the number of people accessing addiction specialist services, wait times, workforce, and investment over the five-year period to June 2024. In most cases, they cover data over the five-year period to June 2024.

Published: 9 April, 2025

  With Phase One complete, the agencies Phase Two will now start from 14 April with both agencies agreeing to a staged implementation across districts. Te Hiringa Mahara has made this statement in response to planned changes.

Published: April 2026

For most measures in the summary, the data covers the five-year period to June 2025. Summary of key findings: More people were able to access services overall, but for 19–24-year-olds, access continued to decrease. People are waiting longer for addiction services than for mental health services.

Published: 29 June, 2023

Peer support workers make up approximately 3.4% of the total workforce and there is much more to do to increase the number and proportion of the total workforce that are peer workers.”

Published: August 2026

Structural factors such as social conditions and public policy play a major role in shaping both drug use and harm.  Therefore, to address alcohol and other drug harm an evidence-based public health approach is needed.

Published: 27 June, 2023

The proportion of tāngata whaiora Māori accessing Māori specialist mental health and addiction services has decreased over the last five-year period from 30 per cent in 2017/18 to 26 per cent in the last financial year (2021/22).

Published: 20 April, 2026

It is one year since the Mental Health Bill was returned to Parliament for its second reading, and Te Hiringa Mahara is calling on the Government to ensure this is passed into law this year. On 17 April 2025, the Health Select Committee handed the Bill back to Parliament to be finalised.

Published: March 2024

In May this year, we released Te Huringa Tuarua 2023 – our second monitoring report on mental health and addiction services. This report monitors publicly health-funded mental health and addiction services over the five-year period from 2017/18 to 2021/22, using a broad suite of data.