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Holding a mirror up to the mental health and addiction system
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Newsimprovements. “We are holding a mirror up to the system. When people working in the system have a clear idea of how things are progressing it helps to keep the focus on where improvements must be made,” Ms Orsborn said. This report provides a shared view of what a good mental health and addiction system looks like. Read now
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Refreshed strategic direction – July 2025
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Newsprevious Statement of Intent coming to an end, it was timely to develop our next strategy. We engaged with stakeholders to develop a Future Excellence Horizon. This process sought to answer what the future performance challenges for the Commission might be, and how we could be successful at meeting
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Access and Choice programme
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recommendations provide more detail about what success looks like so action can be taken and progress monitored. The recommendations are: Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ) increase programme reach to deliver service to 325,000 people per annum by 30 June 2026, as intended in the 2019
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Access and choice for mental health and addiction services encouraging, but workforce challenges remain
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NewsConsiderable progress has been made with the Access and Choice programme rollout over the last year, despite significant challenges for the primary care and mental health and addiction sectors in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is according to the second report on the programme by Te
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New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report
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Newscomplex 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
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Our tools to create system change
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Asessment of progress report downloads Read our assessment of recommendations made in the Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun service monitoring report. December 2025. As an Independent Crown Entity, Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission uses a variety of tools to
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Lived experiences of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act (1992) webinar
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Watch our first recording in the Te Huringa Tuarua webinar series - 28 September 2023. Find out what changes we want to see happen with Compulsory Community Treatment Orders in Aotearoa New Zealand. In June of this year, we released a report on lived experiences of Compulsory Community
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He Ara Āwhina development journey
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Resourceand Pacific communities. People told us: Support starts and continues with people and communities, not services. The former Mental Health Commissioner’s framework was viewed as being too narrow but was something that could be refined and built upon. The voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora are crucial
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Pathway for peer support to transform the mental health and addiction workforce webinar
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together and synthesises evidence from academic research, New Zealand data, and the voices of people with lived experience on the value of the peer support workforce in mental health and alcohol and drug services. While the peer support workforce in Aotearoa is growing, it remains a small proportion of our