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Published: June 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara is releasing a package of products in April-June 2025 to monitor mental health and addiction services, and understand system performance.

Published: 21 March, 2024

An announcement on 21 March by the Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey that a new mental health and addiction peer support service will be set up in hospital emergency departments is a positive move.  

Published: 20 January, 2024

This paper provides supplementary information about the workforce development funding made available through the Access and Choice Programme in Budget 2019.

Published: 11 June, 2025

The System Performance Monitoring Report released by Te Hiringa Mahara outlines progress toward improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes for New Zealanders and shows the need to speed up much needed improvements across the system.

Published: 30 June, 2022

The most important terms in He Ara Āwhina are explained here, along with complex terms that are not ‘everyday language’.

Published: 3 April, 2025

At the five- year mark, the Access and Choice Programme has proved to be a valuable addition to the mental health, addiction and wellbeing support services available to people throughout the country.

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: 20 May, 2025

An update on progress with the repeal and replacement of the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992.

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: 1 November, 2023

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