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Briefings to Incoming Ministers (BIMs) publicly released
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organisational structure. The briefing is our perspective on an overview of mental health and wellbeing in New Zealand, and outlines current issues and opportunities in these portfolios. We make the case for action on the things we believe will make a significant impact across the system: providing
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Board Chair Hayden Wano receives New Year Honour for services to Māori health
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important role in the current transformation of the health system. As kaitiaki (guardian) of mental health and wellbeing, Te Hiringa Mahara works to ensure the voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora (people with lived experience of distress and addiction, substance, or gambling harm) can be heard and
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Speaking up about the Pae Ora amendment bill
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) Amendment Bill are currently being considered by the Health Select Committee. Read our submission (PDF 175 KB) When the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill was introduced by the previous government in October 2021, we advocated for the inclusion of a mental health and addiction strategy under the legislation
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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
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Meet our Lived Experience Advisors
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We currently have two Lived Experience Advisors whose job is to support connections with tāngata whaiora and lived experience communities and provide advice on all of the work of Te Hiringa Mahara. Guy Baker Kaitohutohu Wheako Māori Whānau | Principal Advisor Māori Whānau Lived Experience (he
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Where did the $1.9 billion Wellbeing Budget go?
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resources is underpinned by a long-term vision and strategy. Investment is still needed to sustain and scale up current and new initiatives in priority areas,” Ms Orsborn said. The Commission received data about the status of the funding allocated for mental health and addiction initiatives in Budget 2019
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Lived experiences of CCTOs report
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see the new mental health law based on supported decision making, and embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and a Te Ao Māori worldview. Practices that need to change now under the current Mental Health Act 1992: We want to see a reduction in the number of applications and outcomes granted for CCTOs, and
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission calls for stronger action to transform key areas of the mental health and addiction system
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more is needed to address pressures on specialist services, particularly for young people. “The current health reforms, and the newly-created Health NZ and the Māori Health Authority, provide opportunities to embed strong leadership in their operating models and enhance the focus on mental health and
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Time called on compulsory community mental health treatment
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Orders report documents how tāngata whaiora, whānau and family, and Māori feel marginalised in processes that determine what treatment they receive. “The use of compulsory community treatment orders is a practice from mental health that is out of step with human rights and current approaches to
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New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report
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complex 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