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Peer mental support role in EDs is a positive move
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The announcement today by the Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey that a new mental health and addiction peer support service will be set up in hospital emergency departments is a positive move. “People who are experiencing mental distress who arrive at an emergency department will
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Improving crisis responses - Police and Health NZ change programme webinar
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experience insights and representatives from Health NZ and Police. Te Hiringa Mahara facilitated the webinar, and shared findings from our acute options insights paper along with an introduction to work we are doing on monitoring crisis responses. Our speakers: Dr Leeanne Fisher, National Chief Mental
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Lived experiences of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act (1992) webinar
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Kupenga Net Trust in Tairāwhiti as an adult peer support/advocacy worker, Consumer Leader, and Mataora. Guy was privileged to carry the voices of whānau to local, regional, and national forums where he was a Co-Chair of Ngā Hau e Whā (National Consumer Advocacy Group) and become a member of the National Association of Mental Health Services Consumer Advisors (NAMHSCA) prior to joining Te Hiringa Mahara in 2022.
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Guide to language in He Ara Āwhina
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Ara Āwhina [DOCX, 108 KB] Addiction services Services that exist to respond to the experiences, needs, and aspirations of tāngata whaiora and whānau who experience harm from substances or harm from gambling, substance addiction, or non-substance addiction. Coercive practises Practises where
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More action needed to address mental health and addiction service challenges
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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. This is
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Independent Commission’s report highlights the importance of improving access and choice for mental health and addiction services in Aotearoa
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recommendations in He Ara Oranga: Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction , has a particular focus on people with mild-to-moderate mental health and addiction needs and improving access to primary mental health, wellbeing and addiction services, including in Kaupapa Māori, Pacific
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Service monitoring data summaries 2025
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Two new data summaries provide updated data on access and trends for mental health and addiction services, with the second one focused on addiction specialist services. This is released as part of our regular monitoring role. The purpose of these data summaries is to highlight and bring together
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Pressure on addiction treatment services highlighted
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New analysis shows a 10.5% reduction in the number of people accessing addiction treatment services over the last five years raising concerns about whether there is sufficient capacity to respond to an increase in demand. “Recent reports show drug use has increased, yet over the past five
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2025 monitoring
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Wellbeing assessment: People who interact with mental health and addiction services | June 2025 Our wellbeing assessment shows people who interact with mental health and addiction services face significantly greater barriers to wellbeing compared to those who don’t. Mental health and addiction
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Te Hiringa Mahara welcomes Health Quality and Safety Commission report on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 on Aotearoa
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services. “As the Commission notes, the arrival of the Omicron variant has exposed long-standing, fundamental weaknesses in our health system. There is little capacity in the mental health system to cope with shocks, there are entrenched inequities in access to services and better outcomes experienced by