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  • Kia Toipoto

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    Service. Under Kia Toipoto, agencies and entities with at least 20 employees in each comparative group are to publish their pay gaps, while also protecting the privacy of employees. Te Hiringa Mahara is a new and relatively small organisation. As such, under those requirements, it does not have the

  • Official Information Act requests

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    Te Hiringa Mahara is part of the New Zealand public sector and must meet its obligations under the Official Information Act 1982 (the OIA). OIA requests can be addressed to us via kiaora@mhwc.govt.nz . Our policy is to proactively publish OIA responses that may be of interest to the wider public

  • Mental Health Bill

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    . We recommend key areas to be strengthened under the Bill: seclusion is eliminated within a specified timeframe under the Act courts and tribunals decision-making procedures under the Act reflect best practice approaches community compulsory treatment/care orders are reduced and eventually phased out

  • Time called on compulsory community mental health treatment

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    Waitangi and human rights obligations and they are not effective.”  Compulsory community treatment orders (CCTO) are granted by a judge following an application by a clinician. The orders lead to people being medicated without consent and have their freedom of movement curtailed. People under a

  • Access and choice for mental health and addiction services encouraging, but workforce challenges remain

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    Hayden Wano. “These reports provide us with an opportunity to see where progress is being made, not only in access to services but also in having the opportunity to have genuine service choice. There are more services and capacity in previously under-supported areas, growth in Kaupapa Māori services

  • More action needed to address mental health and addiction service challenges

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    services being rolled out under the Access and Choice programme. “There have been substantial increases in medication dispensing, particularly for young people, and this warrants further exploration of whether young people have a full range of treatment options available. In addition, they continue

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    . The Commission urges the Government to be bold in work under way to transform mental health law, and to invest in culturally appropriate, community-based acute services to provide genuine choice for people and whānau, alongside the option of inpatient care. People with personal experience of mental

  • Leadership as a mental wellbeing system enabler report

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    , and long-term actions. These sit under six key system enablers: Leadership, Policy, Investment, Information, Technology, and Workforce. Recognising the importance of system-level leadership, this report focuses on the short-term leadership actions. Without shifts in system leadership, other

  • New Mental Health Bill - are we there yet?

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    of individuals, organisations, experts and communities. A rich body of knowledge, and a source of ideas for ways to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of coercive practices in mental health services, is now available under ‘related resources’ on Parliament’s website, for all to draw on. It is

  • 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