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Published: July 2025

We are growing our connections with lived experience networks, organisations and people, and are grateful for the contributions that lived experience groups have made to our work so far.

Published: 28 August, 2024

The key findings of the report show that 92% of the 2019 Wellbeing Budget $1.96 billion funding allocated had been spent or committed by 30 June 2023: 29 initiatives received funding across 12 portfolios 57% went to Health ($1.12 billion over four years) $1.54 billion was for new initiatives, $225.2

Published: August 2025

We are committed to prioritising the voices of people who experience mental distress or substance harm and advocating for their needs and aspirations.

Published: February 2026

Shifting to supported decision making The Bill does not go far enough to enable the shifts in practice we want to see lead to better outcomes for people.

Published: 1 December, 2021

Phase 1 of this work was completed at the end of 2022, and mahi will continue for measures where data does not exist or are not readily available. We established a Technical Advisory Network (TAN) to provide advice and expertise of methods, measures, data sources and data gaps.

Published: 5 December, 2024

The report provides a detailed breakdown of our achievements related to our four strategic objectives: Advancing mental health and wellbeing outcomes for Māori and whānau Achieving equity for priority populations Advocating for a mental health and addiction system that has people and whānau at the centre

Published: 5 June, 2024

This is primarily related to acute workforce shortages in specialist services and is compounded by having more complex cases. For example, vacancies rates sit at 22% for psychologists and 19% for psychiatrists.

Published: 20 May, 2022

  "Overall, it is encouraging to see the Government continuing to follow through on the outcomes of the He Ara Oranga report and honouring its commitment to better services and support for mental wellbeing."

Published: 22 March, 2022

Wait times for young people to access specialist mental health services continue to be well below target and wait times for addiction services have increased over the past five years.

Published: 12 September, 2023

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