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Broader focus on wellbeing needed to understand COVID-19 impacts
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good mental health and wellbeing, services and resources are important, but not enough. People need to have their rights, dignity and tino rangatiratanga upheld; they need to feel valued and connected to their communities and their cultures; and they need skills, resilience, hope and purpose
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Assessment of progress - implementation of Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga recommendations downloads
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commits to funding a planned programme of work to collect mental health and addiction prevalence data by June 2025, to enable improved services and ensure value for money. Each of the recommendations had a completion date of 30 June 2025. This report assesses the
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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
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Targeted vaccination approaches needed in the face of Omicron variant
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couldn't. However, the job is not yet done. “There will be a number of reasons for these lower rates, but we are of the view that access is a particular concern, combined with a level of hesitancy and lack of trust. We have no reason to believe that a significant portion are vaccine resistant as such
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Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices
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have no therapeutic value, and called for investment that will provide the choice of services needed to enhance safety for all. Karen Orsborn: Time to end coercive practices in mental health care OPINION: People in Aotearoa New Zealand experiencing significant mental distress continue to be subject
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. Complaint to privacy commissioner or ombudsman If you are not satisfied with our response or the way we handled your complaint, you have the right to make a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner or the Ombudsman, depending on the nature of your complaint. More information on the process for lodging a complaint can be found on the Office of the Ombudsman's website or the Privacy Commissioner's website .
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Report signals progress of Government’s response to He Ara Oranga, the inquiry into mental health and addiction
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. “Overall, our findings are relatively consistent across all four initial priorities; progress is happening, and communities are leading change from the front. There is strong hope that we can build a wellbeing system with people and whānau at the heart, but there is still a long way to go before
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Holding a mirror up to the mental health and addiction system
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Mahara outlines progress toward improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes for New Zealanders and shows the need to speed up much needed improvements across the system. “Efforts to improve the system over the past six years have shown some early positive movement however these changes are not yet
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New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report
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complex cases. For example, vacancies rates sit at 22% for psychologists and 19% for psychiatrists. “What we’re seeing is that under-pressure services have constraints on how many people they can see, with some people not meeting the threshold to access specialist services. Some people can get
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Annual Report 2022/23 highlights
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on policy proposals and bills, such as the Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill, Therapeutic Products Bill and Manatū Hauora policy proposal to repeal and replace the Mental Health Act. We generated good coverage of the issues we’re working on in a variety of media outlets. Over the