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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: 22 March, 2022

Key information Te Huringa 2022 was our first mental health services and addiction services monitoring report. It shows the performance of mental health services and addiction services between 2016-2017 and 2020-2021.

Published: 25 February, 2026

Improved access to services contributes to ensuring mental health and addiction (MHA) services are meeting the needs of tāngata whaiora and their whānau (one of our strategic priorities).

Published: 29 May, 2025

For those seeking support from a specialist addiction service, the wait is getting longer.”  “There is a strong case for increased investment in addiction services,” Sonya Russell said.

Published: 31 May, 2023

This mental health and addiction service monitoring report is the main report that monitors across the breadth of national-level data. It aims to show what is working well and what isn’t in mental health and addiction services, how this has changed over time, and advocate for improvements.

Published: 5 November, 2025

 "A cohesive national approach will set out what is needed and where to supplement services. The challenge is to connect services up for people who need it wherever they live. This includes crisis lines which are under pressure,” Ms Orsborn said.

Published: 31 May, 2023

More people are accessing new services through the Access and Choice programme, however, there has been a decrease in people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services and other primary mental health services, and little or no change on other measures of service quality.

Published: March 2024

In this webinar, we shared selected findings from this report about changes in mental health and addiction service use. Overall, there has been a decrease in people accessing specialist services, primary mental health initiatives, telehealth, and online services in 2021/22.

Published: 5 June, 2024

However, access to specialist services has decreased, with people reporting challenges accessing these services. We look at the access challenges faced across the system, and for the first time we have make specific recommendations based on our findings.

Published: July 2024

Access has increased since 2020 with four service types now available- Integrated Primary Mental Health and Addiction Services, Kaupapa Maori, Pacific and Youth services. These were used by thousands of young people in 2022/23.