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  • Access to specialist mental health and addiction services continues to decrease

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    Tīmata Te Haerenga service monitoring report. We found that this was not due to a decrease in need for specialist services, but largely due to significant workforce shortages and increasing complexity of people’s needs. In June 2024, the Commission made a set of recommendations for urgent action by

  • Leadership as a mental wellbeing system enabler report

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    , and long-term actions. These sit under six key system enablers: Leadership, Policy, Investment, Information, Technology, and Workforce. Recognising the importance of system-level leadership, this report focuses on the short-term leadership actions. Without shifts in system leadership, other

  • Strategy to improve mental health outcomes on the way

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    attention to in our submission. We said it is important that Te Hiringa Mahara acts independently, providing free and frank advice. This is protected in the new law. We have consistently highlighted workforce challenges over the last three years so it good to note the workforce is included as a

  • Speaking up about the Pae Ora amendment bill

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    health distress or addiction (or both) and those who support them, including whānau. [BB2]  We agree with the proposed content of the strategy, with the addition of further clarification on the wellbeing and workforce aspects of the strategy. By adding workforce we will ensure consistency with

  • More action needed to address mental health and addiction service challenges

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    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

  • System performance monitoring report - June 2025

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    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.

  • Te Huringa Tuarua 2023 webinar series

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    as three focus reports on kaupapa Māori services, lived experience of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders and admission of young people to adult inpatient services. We also released a report on the peer support workforce. In our webinar series, we focused on: Lived experiences of Compulsory

  • Mental health and addiction system

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    report This report focuses on where key mental health and addiction investments announced in the 2019 Wellbeing Budget in May 2019 had been spent as of 30 June 2023 Peer support workforce paper This paper shows the critical role of the peer workforce in enabling recovery, improving hope and in

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

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    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

  • Te Huringa Tuarua: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring Reports 2023

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    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