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  • New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report

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    complex cases. For example, vacancies rates sit at 22% for psychologists and 19% for psychiatrists. “What we’re seeing is that under-pressure services have constraints on how many people they can see, with some people not meeting the threshold to access specialist services. Some people can get

  • 2025 monitoring

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    Download our factsheet providing supplementary information about the number of people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services, with data up to June 2024. Te Hiringa Mahara is releasing a package of products in April-June 2025 to monitor mental health and addiction services, and

  • Improve wellbeing for rangatahi and young people

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    seat at decision-making tables. Expand access to youth mental health and addiction services in all localities.  Reduce the number of rangatahi Māori and young people admitted to adult in-patient mental health services to zero.  Invest in youth specific acute options for rangatahi Māori and young

  • Priority on youth mental health strikes a chord

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    Mahara. We are advocating for: Expand access to youth mental health and addiction services in all localities Reduce the number of rangatahi Māori and young people admitted to adult in-patient mental health services to zero A focus on addressing the drivers of wellbeing for rangatahi and young

  • Mental health and addiction service access data collection

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    . What people share with us will help us to better understand changes in the number of people who use mental health and addiction services. Who do we want to hear from? We want to hear from people who have experience of mental distress, alcohol or other drug harm, gambling harm, or addiction who have

  • Annual Report 2022/23 highlights

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    annual report available for download.    A big emphasis in the last year has been on solidifying our monitoring approach and laying the foundation for our advocacy. We published Te Huringa Tuarua, a detailed report on services, along with four insights papers exploring youth services

  • Lived experiences of CCTOs report

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    override tāngata whaiora and whānau perspectives. The report also documents how clinical reviews and court hearings marginalise Te Ao Māori and lived experience perspectives.  The number of people subjected to a Compulsory Community Treatment Order under the Mental Health Act increased by 8

  • Access and choice mental health programme stacks up

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      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. Today Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission released a report that

  • Independent Commission’s report highlights the importance of improving access and choice for mental health and addiction services in Aotearoa

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    services, this may not include those who find co-payment a barrier to visiting their GP. This presents a significant equity issue,” Wano says. While there are a number of areas that need more focus, overall he says it is exciting to see the momentum created by the Access and Choice programme. “Now we need

  • Commission responds to Implementation Unit’s mid-term review of 2019 mental health package

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    is in place come 2023 / 24.” says Board Chair, Hayden Wano. “In particular, we’d like to see focus on the growth of kaupapa Māori services, and support options for our Pacific communities, as we know they disproportionately experience mental distress or addiction. We also echo calls for greater focus