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Published: 31 May, 2023

to experience long waiting times to access specialist services. Our young people deserve better,” says Te Hiringa Mahara Board Chair Hayden Wano. “The workforce has grown for specialist adult mental health and addiction services over the last five years, but workforce vacancies have doubled. We want

Published: June 2025

supported by the right workforce. Our initial monitoring findings show that while there are some early positive movements in some areas, for example peer support workforce, overall, there is a system under significant pressure. Collective and coordinated action across the system shifts is required . This is our first system performance monitoring report and we will expand and improve the set of measures used in coming years.

Published: 24 September, 2021

on growing our mental health and addiction workforce at pace.” The Commission provides system leadership and oversight by monitoring people’s wellbeing in Aotearoa and the things that help us to be and stay well, as well as assessing how our mental health and addiction system supports our wellbeing

Published: 28 October, 2021

access to services and supports during these challenging times, and it is important that the programme implementation continues at pace. “Recruitment into the workforce for services has been a challenge, particularly for Kaupapa Māori and Pacific services. “The Commission would like to see more

Published: March 2024

-19 insights series .  Our reports monitoring the mental health and addiction system are available here Reports in Te Huringa Tuarua insights report feature voices of lived experience. See Te Huringa Tuarua: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring We have also prepared an insights on the Peer support workforce paper (June 2023)  Beyond the reports that we publish, we also advocate for improvement via submissions and other advocacy .

Published: 31 May, 2023

Access and Choice programme Workforce vacancies in specialist adult mental health and addiction services have doubled between 2018 and 2022, and we want to see a clear strategy and roadmap to address growing workforce shortages Coercive practices continue to be widely used, particularly for Māori and

Published: 27 October, 2022

health and addiction treatment options is also needed. “To deliver the services needed, given the real workforce constraints, will require transformation of the way we recruit, train, support and deploy the mental health and addiction services workforce. In short, greater employment of specialist

Published: September 2025

Programme: Report on the first three years 2022 Read our Access and Choice Programme: Report on the first three years 2022 Report Access and Choice Programme progress report 2021 Read our Access and Choice Programme progress report 2021 Report Supplementary paper: Access and Choice Programme workforce

Published: December 2025

. Having a plan to grow the workforce and address workforce shortages, improve prevalence information, and create better data systems will provide a solid foundation for enabling system changes that are most effective in improving access and addressing gaps to mental health and addiction services.   &nbsp

Published: 29 May, 2025

key monitoring findings for specialist addiction services, and access to mental health and addiction services. Data reported on includes the number of people accessing addiction specialist services, wait times, workforce, and investment over the five-year period to June 2024. In most cases, they cover