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Published: 29 May, 2025

New analysis shows a 10.5% reduction in the number of people accessing addiction treatment services over the last five years raising concerns about whether there is sufficient capacity to respond to an increase in demand.  “Recent reports show drug use has increased, yet over the past five

Published: 5 March, 2025

panel discussion, with a 20-minute time slot for questions to the panel.  When: 2:30pm – 3:30pm, Monday 24 March 2025 Where: Online Part 2 and Part 3 of this webinar series on improving crisis responses in Aotearoa New Zealand are planned for later in 2025. Subscribe to our mailing list to stay up to date.

Published: 31 March, 2026

Following the release of the Office of the Director of Mental Health and Addiction Services: Regulatory Report today, Te Hiringa Mahara is renewing its call for improvements to address concerning trends for Māori and Pacific peoples. The report shows Māori are 6.6 times, and Pacific peoples are 1.7

Published: 4 July, 2024

good to see the announcement of these five targets.” “To achieve the target, resources need to be aligned, a concrete action plan put in place, and more effort put into building system leadership momentum. We also hope to see the Minister for Mental Health closely involved.” “The focus on access acts

Published: 5 November, 2025

was made at the inaugural Hauora Hinengaro: He ara tūroa conference that Te Hiringa Mahara is co-hosting with TheMHS in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. The additional funding will provide for a range of crisis support services. Funding an 40 additional frontline clinical staff for crisis assessment and

Published: 3 April, 2025

people seeking help with mild to moderate mental health and addiction needs. The report provides: findings on what was delivered impact on people and the mental health and addiction landscape recommendations for the programme to achieve its objectives Selected key findings from the report on the use of

Published: 5 December, 2024

includes detailing who we are and what we do, how we manage our business, our financial statements and progress against our Statement of Performance Expectations for 2023/24. The report provides a detailed breakdown of our achievements related to our four strategic objectives: Advancing mental health and

Published: 1 June, 2021

Once the He Ara Oranga wellbeing outcomes framework was drafted, the next step was to find what data were available to measure and monitor the performance of the mental health and wellbeing system. In the data phase, the Initial Commission looked at how they could use information collected from

Published: January 2026

We have have created an up-to-date picture of the state of wellbeing for rangatahi and young people in Aotearoa.  View infographic online .    Download infographic (PDF 359KB).   Download infographic (Word 4.3MB) Topics covered in the infographic include rating of wellbeing

Published: August 2025

from the government of the day. An Initial Commission was set-up in November 2019 to start on high priority projects and begin setting up the new organisation.  The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Act 2020 was passed in June 2020, and we began to fulfil our new legislative functions in