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Published: 18 February, 2025

This factsheet provides supplementary information about the number of people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services, with data up to June 2024. Latest data to June 2024, shows the number of people using specialist mental health and addiction services continues to decrease.

Published: 10 December, 2020

The consultation phase to provide feedback on the development of a framework to monitor mental health services and addiction services is now closed.

Published: 1 November, 2023

This could be through a health service, online, calling a helpline, or other service. We will use the information we collected to advocate for changes to the mental health and addiction system in Aotearoa.

Published: 11 May, 2023

Māori-led initiatives played a key role in protecting the health and wellbeing of communities, supporting connection with individuals and whānau, and sharing information and resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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: 31 May, 2023

 We must keep te Tiriti o Waitangi, people and whānau at the heart of a transformed mental health and addiction system. We want to see more by Māori, for Māori approaches, such as kaupapa Māori services. “The improvement we need requires our collective leadership.

Published: 25 February, 2026

Ensuring support is available when it’s most needed can reduce the lifelong effects of mental health issues. “The data we have gathered clearly shows that the system is less responsive to the high level of mental health need of Māori, Pacific and disabled people.

Published: 18 February, 2025

In June 2024, the Commission made a set of recommendations for urgent action by Government and health agencies to accelerate improvement in a range of critical areas.

Published: 27 June, 2023

   The report amplifies the voices of Māori, underscoring their experiences within a health system that often fails to prioritize Te Ao Māori and tikanga Māori principles.

Published: 29 June, 2023

  “Peer support workers are a vital part of the frontline workforce, but they have a wider role too. Alongside other lived experience roles, they can help transform the landscape of mental health and addiction services,” Ms Orsborn said.