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Published: August 2025

Intent was prepared following a strategic review.  It provides a view on our strategic priorities, how we work and what we will deliver over the next four years. The current SOI was released in July 2025.  Statement of Intent 2025 - 2029 [PDF 1.6MB]   Statement of Intent 2022 – 2026

Published: January 2025

, Karen was Director Health Quality Improvement and Deputy Chief Executive at the Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC). In this role she led national patient safety and quality improvement programmes across public and private hospitals, primary and community care, mental health and addiction

Published: March 2025

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 provided the following briefings to the incoming Ministers. Read and download our Briefing to the Incoming Ministers below Briefing to the

Published: April 2025

He Ara Āwhina Framework Our He Ara Āwhina (Pathways to Support) framework describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. We use this to assess how our system delivers for whanau an Mental health and addiction service monitoring reports Our mental health and addiction service

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: 29 May, 2025

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

Published: 26 August, 2025

reporting on this work later in 2025, with a monitoring report, and expect these findings to inform future service design and improvements. Downloads Crisis response literature scan pdf, 726 KB Download Crisis response literature scan docx, 2.8 MB Download Nau mai, haere mai. Join us for our second

Published: November 2023

Āwhina Date published: 24 June 2025 Response date: 4 March 2025 View/download PDF: MHWC2025 001 Updates to He Ara Awhina [PDF, 111KB] Parental leave entitlements Date published: 4 February 2025 Response date: 11 December 2024 View/download PDF: MHWC2024-009 Parental leave entitlements [PDF, 472KB

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: August 2025

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