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Wāhanga tautuhi takirua / Co-define phase
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Over April and May 2020, the Initial Commission sought a range of views to start developing an outcomes framework for mental health and wellbeing. When they started this work, their aim was to ensure that everyone could have their say on how the system will monitor, measure and improve our
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Karen Orsborn appointed as Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Chief Executive
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Commission set to move forward on advancing Aotearoa’s wellbeing agenda The Chair of the Commission Board, Hayden Wano, has today announced the appointment of its new Tumu Whakarae - Chief Executive for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. Karen Orsborn steps into the Chief Executive role
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Peer mental support role in EDs is a positive move
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The announcement today by the Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey that a new mental health and addiction peer support service will be set up in hospital emergency departments is a positive move. “People who are experiencing mental distress who arrive at an emergency department will
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New report highlights Pacific wellbeing challenges
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A new report from Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission shows that more should be done to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes of Pacific peoples. The report, Achieving equity of Pacific mental health and wellbeing outcomes , offers a snapshot of New Zealand’s Pacific
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Targeted vaccination approaches needed in the face of Omicron variant
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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
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission welcomes Budget 2022 investment in specialist mental health and addiction services
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We commend the Government’s Budget 2022 investment in specialist mental health and addiction, particularly the investment in community-based crisis services, specialist child and adolescent mental health and addiction services, and Kaupapa Māori services. "We see this latest announcement as a
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Put an end to CCTOs
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We are advocating for change from a coercive to a choice based mental health system. The changes we are calling for can be made now. Repeal and replace the Mental Health Act New legislation must be co-designed with people with lived experience of compulsory treatment, uphold Te Tiriti o
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Mental Health Bill
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Download Mental Health Bill submission pdf, 284 KB Since our formation the Commission has contributed to policy development to ensure Aotearoa New Zealand has mental health law based on human rights and eliminates coercive practices or reduces them to the greatest extent possible. We submitted on
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Governance
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published in the government gazette . Our Board must make sure that it effectively seeks and understands the views of Māori as tangata whenua, of people with lived experience of mental distress or addiction (or both) and the people who support them, as well as Pacific people, and other groups and
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2024 mental health and addiction services monitoring – update webinar
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On 5 June 2024, we released Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun —our latest monitoring report on mental health and addiction services. This report focuses on access to mental health and addiction services and options available over the five-year period from July 2018 to June 2023.