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  • Mental Health Bill

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    Download Mental Health Bill submission pdf, 284 KB Since our formation Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing 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

  • Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission welcomes Mental Health Commissioner’s report on mental health and addiction services

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    The Mental Health Commissioner has today released a report , providing insights about mental health and addiction services. Chair of the Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, Mr Hayden Wano, says that this report is timely and signals how Government can enhance the response to He Ara

  • Our work

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    Lived Experience Learn about our commitment to being an advocate for communities with lived experience of mental distress and addiction. Advocacy Learn about our advocacy work. Mental Health and Addiction System Learn about how we independently monitor, assess, report and share findings on mental

  • Mental health and addiction service monitoring

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    Service monitoring data summaries | May 2025 The following two data summaries include data on addiction specialist services and access to services. Infographics Specialist mental health and addiction services access factsheet download | February 2025 Download the new factsheet providing

  • HAĀ monitoring reports

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  • Mental health and addiction targets welcomed

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    The announcement of targets to address wait times and workforce pressures across the mental health and addiction system has been welcomed by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. “Access to appropriate services when and where they are needed is very important to people seeking

  • Advancing Māori mental health and wellbeing

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    We are an organisation committed to being grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We have made a strong commitment to achieving better and equitable mental health and wellbeing outcomes for Māori and whānau. This is front and centre of who we are and what we do. Monitoring of Māori and whānau wellbeing

  • Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun report downloads

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    The purpose of this report is to monitor mental health and addiction services over the five-year period from July 2018 to June 2023. The report focuses on access to services and options available.  On this page you can download or view: Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun 2024

  • 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

  • Strategy to improve mental health outcomes on the way

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    Last week we welcomed the passing by Parliament of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) (Improving Mental Health Outcomes) Amendment Bill. This amendment requires that the Minister for Mental Health produce a mental health and wellbeing strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand within 12 months. The Bill was