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Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices
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Newsinpatient treatment orders, where a person must remain in an inpatient mental health unit and may be subjected to unconsented treatment and/or solitary confinement, where a person is restricted, alone, in an area or room that they cannot leave. Such practices are enabled by outdated mental health law, a
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Te Huringa: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring Reports 2022
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Resourceincreased over the past five years. Despite calls in 2018 from He Ara Oranga to minimise coercive treatment, our measures show an increase in the use of solitary confinement (seclusion) and no decrease in the use of community treatment orders. Watch our NZ Sign Language Te Huringa: Change and
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Deepening inequities in the mental health system call for action
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Newstimes, more likely to be placed in seclusion (solitary confinement) than non-Māori and non-Pacific peoples, which remains a stark indicator of entrenched inequities within the system. “Today’s report provides an unprecedented level of detail, and clearly shows Māori continue to be
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Put an end to CCTOs
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this is unacceptable. Māori and Pacific peoples are more likely to experience compulsory treatment, and solitary confinement. In 2020/21, Māori were 1.8 times more likely than Pacific peoples and 4 times more likely than other ethnicities to be subject to Compulsory Community Treatment Orders. 
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Mental health and addiction service monitoring
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in 2018 from He Ara Oranga to minimise coercive treatment, our measures show an increase in the use of solitary confinement (seclusion) and no decrease in the use of community treatment orders. Te Huringa 2022 report downloads Our first Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring Report
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Guide to language in He Ara Āwhina
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Resourcepeople are forced or pressured to do something. This can include forced medication, solitary confinement, forced electroconvulsive therapy, physical restraint, mechanical restraint, and environmental restraint such as locked units. Coercive practises also include influencing decision making in a
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy consultation
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NewsConsultation by the Ministry of Health runs from 8 April to 18 May 2026.
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The future of primary mental health care
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This short paper captures outcome of the think tank held in August 2025 to explore the future roles of primary and community care play in supporting people with mental health and substance use needs.
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Age-ban on social media can’t solve mental distress on its own
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NewsAn article outlining what needs to be done to promote online safety for rangatahi and young people.
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