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Published: 3 April, 2025

programme report downloads Downloads Access and Choice programme report - April 2025 pdf, 9.3 MB Download Access and Choice programme report - April 2025 docx, 15 MB Download Access and Choice programme report summary - April 2025 pdf, 1.5 MB Download Access and Choice programme report summary

Published: January 2026

Briefing to the Incoming Minister February 2025 Following the changes to the Minister for Health and Minister for Youth in February 2025, Te Hiringa Mahara -- Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission provided the following briefings to the incoming Ministers. Read and download our Briefing to the

Published: 29 May, 2025

data over the five-year period to June 2024.   Downloads Addiction services data summary - May 2025 pdf, 2.8 MB Download Addiction services data summary May 2025 docx, 1.5 MB Download Service access data summary May 2025 pdf, 1.1 MB Download Service access data summary May 2025 docx, 1.1 MB Download Related works Find all of our service monitoring products released in 2025.

Published: 7 August, 2025

In July 2025 the Commission began operating under a refreshed organisational strategy that sets out how we work and what we will deliver over the next four years. Our approach is documented in our 2025-2029 Statement of Intent and 2025/26 Statement of Performance Expectations, along with a new

Published: February 2026

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

Published: 3 December, 2025

Government.  These five recommendations had a focus on improving access to mental health and addiction (MHA) services. They were: Health NZ develops a mental health and addiction workforce plan to address service capacity and workforce shortages by June 2025 (inclusive of clinical

Published: 30 September, 2025

New Zealand.   2026 submissions: Downloads Sale and Supply of Alcohol Improving Alcohol Regulation Amendment Bill, May 2026 docx, 419 KB Download Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy - Advice, February 2026 pdf, 109 KB Download 2025 submissions: Downloads Submission on Delivering for Pacific

Published: April 2026

population level findings on mental health and substance use from the NZ Health Survey 2024/2025 . He Ara Āwhina | Pathways to Support Summary Set - April 2026 This summary set of measures provides an at-a-glance overview of mental health and addiction service performance across the domains of He

Published: January 2026

Monitoring of the mental health and addiction system is reported on in a number of reports.  Notable reports Mental health and addiction system performance monitoring report | 2025 downloads  (June 2025) Urupare Mōrearea: crisis response services monitoring report (November 2025) Access

Published: 25 February, 2026

wellbeing outcomes. “It's vitally important that we close this gap, and it is becoming more urgent. At a population level young people are reporting increasing levels of psychological distress. In our summary of NZ Health Survey 2024/2025 data, the trend of increasing high levels of psychological distress