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  • Assessment of progress - implementation of Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga recommendations downloads

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    , peer and cultural workforces, Māori and lived experience leadership, and across primary, community, and specialist services). Health NZ develops an action plan by June 2025 to meet the needs of Māori and whānau accessing specialist mental health and addiction services. Health NZ provides guidance

  • Improve wellbeing for rangatahi and young people

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    address this. We are particularly concerned that: Young people continue to experience long wait times to than other age groups to access specialist mental health services. Initial dispensings for antidepressant, antipsychotic, and anxiolytic medications have increased substantially. Last year, 159

  • Annual Report 2022/23 highlights

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    last year we had interviews in national media such as TVNZ Breakfast, Radio Waatea and RNZ Morning Report through to specialist outlets including rural, iwi and Pasifika media.   During the year we met with kindred agencies in Australia as a member of the Australasian Joint Mental Health

  • Voices report: accompanying report to Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga 2024

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    important questions about why there is a disconnect between an increasing need for mental health and addiction support and a decrease in people accessing specialist services. We continue to hear about barriers, such as long waiting lists, not knowing how or where to get support, the stigma of

  • Unicef report highlights Aotearoa New Zealand's low ranking for child and youth mental health and wellbeing

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    people has not risen at the same level as other parts of the system. Youth-focused mental health services are important as young people are currently facing longer wait times for specialist mental health and addiction services. Over the last five years there has been a general decline in young people

  • Karen Orsborn: Full impact of COVID-19 on mental health yet to be seen

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    of their contracts. This has created an opportunity to provide support to people who may not have received it otherwise. However, while access to specialist services has not changed since the beginning of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health has reported people experiencing increased levels

  • Mental Health Bill

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    -making legislative framework for specialist mental health care. Regarding policy objectives, we welcome the Bill’s express purposes, principles underpinning limited use of “compulsory care”, and recognition of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. These important changes will partially address policy problems of

  • Kaupapa Māori services report

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    and have higher rates of mental distress than other populations groups, have been advocating for equitable funding for kaupapa Māori services for decades. The proportion of tāngata whaiora Māori accessing Māori specialist mental health and addiction services has decreased over the last five-year

  • Mental health and wellbeing must be a high priority in health system transformation

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    and wellbeing is to people and echo their calls for a continued focus on delivering tangible improvements.” The Commission welcomes the much-needed investment in primary and community care since 2019, the Budget 2022 investment in specialist mental health and addiction services, and the

  • Te Hiringa Mahara welcomes Health Quality and Safety Commission report on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 on Aotearoa

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    health and addiction treatment options is also needed. “To deliver the services needed, given the real workforce constraints, will require transformation of the way we recruit, train, support and deploy the mental health and addiction services workforce. In short, greater employment of specialist