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Published: February 2026

Government’s priority Taking mental health seriously was allocated to each initiative and the expenditure on each of those initiatives for the four years from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2023. It describes each initiative in terms of what it set out to achieve and its status as of 30 June 2023. The report also includes key mental health and addiction initiatives from Budget 2020 to Budget 2022.

Published: 1 November, 2023

A big thank you to everyone who gave us feedback on their journey accessing mental health and addiction services. We received over 300 responses through the data collection that we ran in November. This is now closed. We wanted to hear from people seeking help with mental distress or addiction: If

Published: 1 October, 2020

and Pacific communities. People told us: Support starts and continues with people and communities, not services. The former Mental Health Commissioner’s framework was viewed as being too narrow but was something that could be refined and built upon. The voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora are crucial

Published: February 2026

reports and looks at how the services have been implemented across the five-year roll-out period. It looks at what was delivered by the programme compared with what was intended, as well as the impacts of the programme on people and on the mental health and addiction sector. The Access and Choice

Published: 28 August, 2024

is important to clear up any public misunderstanding about an investment of this size.” “It’s part of our monitoring role to bring transparency to investment decisions. Without it, people can lose confidence in the system’s ability to deliver.” “Going forward, we need to ensure allocation of

Published: 17 May, 2023

mental health. It elevates the voices of young people and draws from their experiences and expertise. Read a short summary of the  Youth wellbeing insights report Watch our New Zealand Sign Language summary of the insights report Read and download our Youth wellbeing insights report Downloads Full

Published: 10 December, 2020

The consultation phase to provide feedback on the development of a framework to monitor mental health services and addiction services is now closed. The Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission provided people with an opportunity to have their say on the He Ara Āwhina service-level monitoring

Published: 24 September, 2021

. Hayden Wano says the Access and Choice Programme, funded through the mental health and addictions package, is critical to give people access to services and supports when we need them and for there to be a greater range of choice as to the type of support and service options available. “We are

Published: 27 January, 2022

As New Zealand faces community transmission of the Omicron variant, too many people who experience mental distress or addictions remain unvaccinated. The total New Zealand vaccination rates are now very high, with over one million people boosted and 93% of the eligible population double vaccinated

Published: February 2026

Download our factsheet providing supplementary information about the number of people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services, with data up to June 2024. Te Hiringa Mahara is releasing a package of products in April-June 2025 to monitor mental health and addiction services, and