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

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    wellbeing systems in Aotearoa,” says Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Board chair Hayden Wano. “Our role is to be the eyes and ears of the people of New Zealand, amplifying the voices of our communities. We bring focus to areas where meaningful action can be taken. Appropriate access to and choice

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission calls for stronger action to transform key areas of the mental health and addiction system

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    Te Huringa: Change and Transformation. Mental Health Service and Addiction Service Monitoring Report 2022 [PDF, 958 KB]  is being released today. The report monitors the performance of mental health services and addictions services between 2016 / 17 and 2020 / 21. “Despite significant

  • Annual Report 2022/23 highlights

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    for our wellbeing kaupapa. We published an 8-part COVID-19 insights series. Amongst areas of focus were insights for rural communities, Pacific peoples and older people.   These reports, and along with those published earlier, were downloaded 13,800 times over the course of the year.&nbsp

  • 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

  • Top priorities for New Zealand's first Minister for Mental Health

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    areas. This is why a Mental Health Minister position is so important.  Take for example efforts to lift positive mental health and wellbeing for young people. These not only improve wellbeing in adulthood but also flow over into educational attainment, productivity and the economy more broadly

  • Mental health and addiction service monitoring

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    due to workforce challenges.  The report calls for urgent action by Government and health agencies to accelerate improvement in a range of critical areas. The report makes five recommendations: Health NZ develops a mental health and addiction workforce plan to address service capacity and

  • Infographic - assessment of youth and rangatahi wellbeing and access to services

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    2021 GSS, which was curtailed due to the COVID-19 Delta outbreak and has a smaller than usual sample size (3,484 people compared to around 8,800 for the 2018 GSS). The 2021 GSS sample was representative of geographic areas and demographic groups, so results are not thought to be biased. TK was lst

  • Lived experiences of CCTOs report

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    This report looks at compulsory community treatment orders (CCTOs) made under section 29 of the Mental Health Act 1992. The focus is on amplifying voices of tāngata whaiora, whānau, and family. We heard that the clinical review and the court hearing processes involved in CCTOs can silence or

  • 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

  • Working paper: Review of suicide and self-harm monitoring indicators downloads

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    This working paper presents a focused review of suicide and self-harm monitoring indicators. The paper outlines how these indicators will contribute to building a high-level picture about rates of suicide and self-harm in Aotearoa New Zealand. The purpose of this review was to identify a small set