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Board Chair Hayden Wano receives New Year Honour for services to Māori health
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Te Hiringa Mahara congratulates our Board Chair Hayden Wano on being made a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order in the New Year’s Honours List 2023, for his service to Māori health. The award reflects Mr Wano’s 40 years-plus health sector experience in mental health, community and medical
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The Access and Choice Programme: Report on the first three years 2022
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where progress is being made, not only in access to services but also in having the opportunity to have genuine service choice. See the media release: Access and choice for mental health and addiction services encouraging, but workforce challenges remain Our Supplementary paper: Access and
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He Ara Oranga Inquiry
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health, media, iwi and advocacy groups. He Ara Oranga set out 40 recommendations to improve the mental health and wellbeing of all people in Aotearoa New Zealand. 38 of these recommendations were accepted by government in full, in principle, or agreed to further consideration. Establishing an organisation with responsibility for mental health and wellbeing was one of the recommendations accepted by government.
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Māori responses to COVID-19 are exemplars for crisis health and wellbeing support
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Māori-led initiatives played a key role in protecting the health and wellbeing of communities, supporting connection with individuals and whānau, and sharing information and resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Key mental health and addiction findings: NZ Health Survey 2023/24
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We’ve put the key mental health and addiction findings from the NZ Health Survey 2023/2024 into one, easy to read summary. We intend for this information to be used as evidence to support planning and investment, and to direct resources where they are most needed to improve mental health and
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission welcomes Budget 2022 investment in specialist mental health and addiction services
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billion currently being spent annually on mental health and addiction services and the system still under extreme pressure, more is needed. "We believe more funding is required to achieve equity for Māori, and improve youth services, specialist services, and other areas not addressed in the
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2024 mental health and addiction services monitoring – update webinar
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and Choice programme in primary care has increased access and expanded options for people with mild to moderate mental health and addiction needs. However, access to specialist services has decreased, with people reporting challenges accessing these services. We look at the access challenges faced
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Unicef report highlights Aotearoa New Zealand's low ranking for child and youth mental health and wellbeing
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accessing mental health services, up to 10,000 fewer younger people over time. Coupled with addressing service access we also need to move quicker to address the broader factors that contribute to longer term mental wellbeing for our young people, to the adults they will grow into and to society
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Covid-19 Insights Series - Impact of COVID-19 on wellbeing of older people in Aotearoa New Zealand
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age groups across a range of measures, predictably, the pandemic had negative impacts on wellbeing Different parts of the older community experienced the pandemic in different ways – the challenges faced often exacerbated existing inequities in wellbeing, and the factors that affect it The COVID-19
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Refreshed strategic direction – July 2025
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Strategy on a page. Since our establishment in February 2021, we have continued to act in our role as a kaitiaki of mental health, addiction and wellbeing. We have built a strong knowledge base and our reports, and other work, are highly valued by our key stakeholders. With the period covered by the