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Published: 11 June, 2025

The System Performance Monitoring Report released by Te Hiringa Mahara outlines progress toward improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes for New Zealanders and shows the need to speed up much needed improvements across the system.

Published: 3 April, 2025

At the five- year mark, the Access and Choice Programme has proved to be a valuable addition to the mental health, addiction and wellbeing support services available to people throughout the country.

Published: 30 June, 2022

The most important terms in He Ara Āwhina are explained here, along with complex terms that are not ‘everyday language’.

Published: 1 December, 2021

We established a Technical Advisory Network (TAN) to provide advice and expertise of methods, measures, data sources and data gaps.

Published: May 2025

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Published: 12 September, 2023

We are delighted to announce that we will be holding a series of webinars where we will share key findings as well as our calls to action from our recent mental health and addiction service monitoring reports.

Published: 5 December, 2024

Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission’s Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024 is now publicly available.

Published: April 2025

We independently monitor, assess, report and share findings on mental health and addiction services and approaches that support people's mental health and wellbeing in Aotearoa.

Published: 28 October, 2021

2021 - The Access and Choice Programme progress report found that the programme has put much-needed investment into primary and community care in line with many of the recommendations in He Ara Oranga: Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction, enabling important services to be provided.

Published: 30 November, 2022

2022 - The Access and Choice Programme: Report on the first three years looks at the first three years of the programme rollout since funds were allocated to the priority initiative in the 2019 Wellbeing Budget.