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Published: November 2025

, 10-year plan lays out a broad range of short, medium, and long-term actions. These sit under six key system enablers: Leadership, Policy, Investment, Information, Technology, and Workforce. Recognising the importance of system-level leadership, this report focuses on the short-term leadership

Published: 19 April, 2024

health distress or addiction (or both) and those who support them, including whānau. [BB2]  We agree with the proposed content of the strategy, with the addition of further clarification on the wellbeing and workforce aspects of the strategy. By adding workforce we will ensure consistency with

Published: 15 December, 2025

that three recommendations from Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga have been completed. Having a plan to support the workforce and address workforce shortages, government funding for improved prevalence information, and better data systems will now provide a solid foundation from which effective changes can be

Published: 31 May, 2023

to experience long waiting times to access specialist services. Our young people deserve better,” says Te Hiringa Mahara Board Chair Hayden Wano. “The workforce has grown for specialist adult mental health and addiction services over the last five years, but workforce vacancies have doubled. We want

Published: 24 September, 2021

on growing our mental health and addiction workforce at pace.” The Commission provides system leadership and oversight by monitoring people’s wellbeing in Aotearoa and the things that help us to be and stay well, as well as assessing how our mental health and addiction system supports our wellbeing

Published: 16 June, 2026

Provides effective primary prevention and early interventions Ensures accessible and effective services Upholds human rights-based practices Is supported by a workforce with the capability, competencies and capacity to meet needs now and in the future. This 2026 monitoring report shows that, while progress

Published: 28 October, 2021

access to services and supports during these challenging times, and it is important that the programme implementation continues at pace. “Recruitment into the workforce for services has been a challenge, particularly for Kaupapa Māori and Pacific services. “The Commission would like to see more

Published: March 2024

-19 insights series .  Our reports monitoring the mental health and addiction system are available here Reports in Te Huringa Tuarua insights report feature voices of lived experience. See Te Huringa Tuarua: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring We have also prepared an insights on the Peer support workforce paper (June 2023)  Beyond the reports that we publish, we also advocate for improvement via submissions and other advocacy .

Published: February 2026

Programme: Report on the first three years 2022 Read our Access and Choice Programme: Report on the first three years 2022 Report Access and Choice Programme progress report 2021 Read our Access and Choice Programme progress report 2021 Report Supplementary paper: Access and Choice Programme workforce

Published: 31 May, 2023

Access and Choice programme Workforce vacancies in specialist adult mental health and addiction services have doubled between 2018 and 2022, and we want to see a clear strategy and roadmap to address growing workforce shortages Coercive practices continue to be widely used, particularly for Māori and