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  • Mental health and addiction service use – what the data shows webinar

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    addiction service use. Overall, there has been a decrease in people accessing specialist services, primary mental health initiatives, telehealth, and online services in 2021/22. This follows a steady increase the four years prior. The exception to this trend is more people are accessing new services

  • 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

  • Effectiveness of early intervention and secondary prevention supports for young people

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    .  There are many programmes and services in New Zealand and internationally that provide early intervention and secondary prevention, including Youth One Stop Shops and the Youth Access and Choice Programme.   These programmes and services are increasingly being designed specifically

  • 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

  • Collective effort will ensure Auditor General’s recommendations on mental health support for rangatahi and young people hit the mark

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    Recommendations in the Meeting the mental health needs of young New Zealanders report released yesterday by the Auditor General show there is a long way to go to ensure every young person who needs support can access it.  “We’ve got to do everything we can to ensure rangatahi and young people

  • Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report | 2025 downloads

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    crisis response system are often delivered as standalone services or locally driven initiatives. There are proven approaches that need to be scaled-up nationwide, such as 24/7 access to phone-based crisis support, to ensure people get access to crisis support when and where they need it.  Our reporting

  • Monitoring 2026 landing page

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    Later in 2026 we will be releasing the following: Our second mental health and addiction system performance monitoring report (June 2026) A comprehensive monitoring report on rangatahi and young people’s access to mental health and addiction services (November 2026). We have also published relevant

  • Call for a National Mental Health Crisis System

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    ensure everyone in New Zealand can access the support they need at a time of crisis. There are around 100 people every day who access crisis mental health services.”  “Right now, some districts have a range of crisis services; while others have very limited options, especially after hours. In

  • Improve wellbeing for rangatahi Māori and young people

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    have a seat at decision-making tables. Expand access to youth mental health and addiction services in all localities.  Eliminate admissions of rangatahi Māori and young people to adult in-patient mental health services.   Invest in youth specific acute options for rangatahi Māori and young people

  • The future of primary mental health care

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    paper. The paper documents the discussion which answered two provocative questions: What does the primary care landscape need to look like? How do we get there? This discussion followed the release in April 2025 of our final monitoring report on the Access and Choice programme. During development of