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Published: 5 November, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission welcomes investment in crisis response services announced today by Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey. The substantial funding package will improve access to support for people in mental health and substance use crisis. The announcement

Published: 25 March, 2026

Following the release of the Government’s latest targets data this morning, Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is renewing its calls for increased urgency to improve access to services for young people. “While we are encouraged by workforce growth and acknowledge the

Published: 15 December, 2025

designed and implemented. Health NZ must now build on this success by taking the next steps to improve access to MHA services on the ground. Timely implementation of a robust workforce plan would ensure there is capacity and capability to make the right options available to people when and where they

Published: April 2026

Māori and a shared perspective, producing 12 domains in total. Through the dashboard we can publish up-to-date data and make it more widely accessible than previously.    Using the dashboard The data is presented in an easy-to-use visual format. For many of the measures, you can dig

Published: 17 September, 2021

definition will also mean that victims and survivors will be able to access available support, and that the impact of discrimination and conversion practices on individuals, family, and whānau are acknowledged. The Commission also recommended that adequate support and complaints advocacy is made

Published: 16 February, 2024

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

Published: 27 October, 2022

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

Published: 11 June, 2025

representation of Māori accessing specialist services overall”. “There have been gains, with significant improvements to access for people seeking mental health and addiction support through a GP or other primary care services, however we are very concerned about the continued downward trend in the number

Published: February 2026

response as well as safe and welcoming places to go ensure tāngata whaiora and whānau have access to information about what they can expect when they are experiencing crisis, regardless of where they live ensure that responses match the patterns of demand, with comparable quality and timeliness in the

Published: April 2026

summary has been published. See our 2026 monitoring   Access to mental health and addiction services data summary The 2026 Mental health and addiction services access data summary provides updated information on the number of people using services, wait times, workforce, among others. Data