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Published: July 2025

Our 2025 wellbeing assessment provides the first comprehensive comparison of wellbeing outcomes for people who interact with mental health and addiction services against the general population. Using administrative data from 2018-2022, this assessment reveals the extent of inequities experienced by people with lived experience of mental distress and addiction.

Published: August 2023

Maori mental health Meta Data

Published: 5 June, 2024

Read and download infographics on: Kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services, Reducing coercive practices, Youth and rangatahi wellbeing and access to services, and a monitoring overview.

Published: June 2025

Data about mental health and addiction services in Aotearoa New Zealand

Updated 11 June 2025.

Published: November 2023

No summary available

Published: 20 May, 2025

Dr Ella Cullen reflects on our country’s poor ranking in a new report from Unicef that provides critical insight into child wellbeing in the world’s wealthier countries between 2018-2022.

Published: 1 October, 2020

We created a framework called He Ara Āwhina, which means pathways to support. He Ara Āwhina was published 30 June 2022 and describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. The process for developing this framework is described on this page.

Published: 29 October, 2024

Last week we welcomed the unanimous passing 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.

Published: 9 April, 2025

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Published: January 2025

Meet our leadership team.