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Published: 29 May, 2025

Two new data summaries provide updated data on access and trends for mental health and addiction services, with the second one focused on addiction specialist services. This is released as part of our regular monitoring role. The purpose of these data summaries is to highlight and bring together

Published: 20 January, 2024

Our Supplementary paper: Access and Choice Programme workforce development funding – the first three years was published in January 2024. Since being announced in Budget 2019, approximately $54 million in contracted funding has been allocated to a range of initiatives within three main development

Published: 29 May, 2025

New analysis shows a 10.5% reduction in the number of people accessing addiction treatment services over the last five years raising concerns about whether there is sufficient capacity to respond to an increase in demand.  “Recent reports show drug use has increased, yet over the past five

Published: 13 December, 2023

, kaupapa Māori services, compulsory community treatment orders and the peer support workforce. A dashboard has been developed to ensure data is more easily accessible See: www.mwhc.govt.nz/dashboard    Taking stock of the lessons we can take from the COVID-19 pandemic response was a focus

Published: 22 August, 2024

acute services Current picture of service access Visions for acute care Evidence of what works Examples that demonstrate the success and benefits of alternative models to acute inpatient care. Downloads Acute options for mental health care insights paper pdf, 1.1 MB Download Acute options for mental health care insights paper docx, 5.8 MB Download

Published: 30 June, 2022

, psychiatric diagnosis, addiction, using mental health or addiction supports or services, or experience of barriers to accessing these support and services when they are needed. Lived experience relates to how people self-identify, and share their identity with others, so it is not our role to

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: 1 October, 2020

We established an Expert Advisory Group (EAG) to guide the development of the He Ara Āwhina framework, following on from the co-define phase for the framework from October 2020 to February 2021.

Published: 28 October, 2021

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (the Commission) has today released its independent report into the progress of the  Access and Choice Programme  being developed and implemented under the leadership of the Ministry of Health. The programme, developed in response to

Published: 1 November, 2023

A big thank you to everyone who gave us feedback on their journey accessing mental health and addiction services. We received over 300 responses through the data collection that we ran in November. This is now closed. We wanted to hear from people seeking help with mental distress or addiction: If