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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

If you require a New Zealand Sign Language interpreter for the webinars or other support to participate, please let us know when you register.

Published: December 2025

  Te Hiringa Mahara will proactively publish information that informs the public about how it undertakes its functions and / or could be of interest to the wider public.  See the full policy for details of what is covered and how we do this.

Published: May 2026

We also define what a good crisis response system could look like for Aotearoa New Zealand. This report makes two recommendations on what needs to happen to improve crisis responses in both the short term and the longer term. 

Published: April 2026

For many of the measures, you can dig deeper and look at measures broken down by demographics or other variables.  You can view the dashboard on the webpage (see above), or look at the data in full-screen mode by opening in a new window.  We are using Microsoft Power BI to display data.

Published: 7 August, 2025

We have reviewed and refreshed our strategy to continue to meet the challenges of today. After taking stock of where the organisation had got to after its first three years, we have looked ahead to how we’ll achieve our vision over the next four years.