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Mental Health Bill
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Health Bill process The Mental Health Bill is currently before the Health Select Committee. Written submissions closed on 20 December 2024 and oral submissions are being head over coming weeks. The Committee must report back to full Parliament by 23 April 2025. You can read bo the full the bill and over 300 submissions on the Parliament website. * We refer to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
Board Chair Hayden Wano receives New Year Honour for services to Māori health
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given prominence. The New Zealand Royal Honours system is unique to New Zealand with candidates nominated by the community, and lists approved by the King of New Zealand on the Prime Minister’s advice for “going beyond the normal requirements of duty or office.” In testament to the high regard in which Mr Wano and his mahi is held, a number of people wrote in support of the honour. New Year's Honours List 2023 Hayden Wano biography
Where did the $1.9 billion Wellbeing Budget go?
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June 2023. Of the unspent $163.8 million, almost $62 million was set aside for capital works. “The vast majority of the $1.9 billion investment has been spent and we can now show where the money went,” said Karen Orsborn, Chief Executive. “We have documented where the money went because we thought it
Covid-19 Insights Series - Impact of COVID-19 on wellbeing of older people in Aotearoa New Zealand
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whānau and community support to access health services, food and necessities Whilst the pandemic led to more loneliness amongst older members of the community, kaumātua worked hard to maintain connections with their communities and whānau in a variety of different ways. It is important that our
Our monitoring dashboard
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in an easy-to-use visual format. For many of the measures, you can dig deeper and look at measures broken down by demographics or other variables. You can view the dashboard on the webpage (see above), or look at the data in full-screen mode by opening in a new window. We are using
Commission will provide system oversight of new mental wellbeing long-term pathway
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benchmark from which we can monitor progress," says Board Chair, Hayden Wano. "We believe in a future where mental wellbeing is attainable for everyone and support the call from Mā te rongo ake to take a whole-systems approach to transformation. Through values-based leadership, working
Rolling out more options for crisis care
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. Alongside traditional inpatient care, there is a wide variety of peer-led, community-based, and Kaupapa Māori approaches we can draw on. Tāngata whaiora (people seeking wellness), have told us that an effective crisis response system has a number of important qualities. They want someone they can call
Access and choice mental health programme stacks up
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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. Today Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission released a report that
Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission supports legislation to ban conversion therapy
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intent. We urge the Select Committee to listen carefully to the voices of rainbow communities, including trans people, those with variations of sex characteristics (sometimes known as intersex), and non-binary people, and their calls to clarify and strengthen areas of the Bill,” says Kevin Hague
Te Hiringa Mahara welcomes Health Quality and Safety Commission report on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 on Aotearoa
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services. “As the Commission notes, the arrival of the Omicron variant has exposed long-standing, fundamental weaknesses in our health system. There is little capacity in the mental health system to cope with shocks, there are entrenched inequities in access to services and better outcomes experienced by