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Te Huringa Tuarua 2023 webinar series
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announce that we will be holding a series of webinars where we will share key findings as well as our calls to action from our recent mental health and addiction service monitoring reports. Earlier this year, we released Te Huringa Tuarua 2023, a suite of connected reports: a summary report as well
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Stronger more inclusive health sector means better health and wellbeing for all
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social, economic, commercial and wider environmental determinants of health”, says Allan. “Each year around one in five of us experience mental illness or significant mental distress. We estimate 50 to 80% of New Zealanders will experience mental distress, or addiction challenges, or
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Mental health and wellbeing must be a high priority in health system transformation
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require long-term planning and delivery. Including a mental health and wellbeing strategy in the Bill would have made it a non-negotiable feature of the future health system in Aotearoa New Zealand, ensuring future governments continue the commitment of the He Ara Oranga inquiry and 
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Priority on youth mental health strikes a chord
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;Under One Umbrella: integrated mental health, alcohol and other drug use care for young people in New Zealand report released today by the Cross-party Mental Health and Addiction Wellbeing Group. “Focusing attention on rangatahi and young people’s mental health is vital. Rangatahi and young people
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Rural communities respond well to pandemic, despite challenges
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The COVID-19 pandemic has added additional stress to the rural community, which itself faces different wellbeing challenges to those of urban Aotearoa. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report, The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing
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Top priorities for New Zealand's first Minister for Mental Health
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New Zealand’s first Minister for Mental Health, Matt Doocey, has a big job ahead of him. Te Hiringa Mahara | Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission chair Hayden Wano outlines our top priorities to transform our mental health and addiction system. The announcement that New Zealand will have
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Report signals progress of Government’s response to He Ara Oranga, the inquiry into mental health and addiction
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a brave and bold shift in culture and new ways of working together.” Findings on four priority areas are: Establishing the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is being established, which sends the right signals and provides someone to guide the system. People
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Annual Report 2022/23 highlights
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on policy proposals and bills, such as the Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill, Therapeutic Products Bill and Manatū Hauora policy proposal to repeal and replace the Mental Health Act. We generated good coverage of the issues we’re working on in a variety of media outlets. Over the
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New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report
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picture of the system available. More New Zealanders are accessing mental health or addiction support from a GP or other primary health provider. The Access and Choice programme, newly established in 2019/20, provided support to around 186,000 people in 2022/23. However, the number of people
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Where did the $1.9 billion Wellbeing Budget go?
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Details of how the 2019 Wellbeing Budget Taking mental health seriously funding was spent have been made public by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. In a new report released today, the Commission shows that 92% of all funding allocated had been spent or committed by 30