HDC Mental Health Monitoring and Advocacy – all publications

Monitoring and Advocacy Reports

Monitoring and Advocacy Report of the Mental Health Commissioner 2020

Mental Health Commissioner's Monitoring Indicator Update 2019

Monitoring and Advocacy Report of the Mental Health Commissioner 2018

 

Correspondence

Open letter to Minister of Health from outgoing Mental Health Commissioner (February 2021 (PDF 531kb)

Minister of Health’s response to recommendations from June 2020 monitoring and advocacy report (February 2021) (PDF 100kb)

Letter to the new Minister of Health on pressing need for action plan for mental wellbeing reforms (November 2020) (PDF 496kb)

A response from the Minister of Health regarding pressing need for action plan on mental wellbeing reforms (July 2020) (PDF 164kb)

Letter to the Minister of Health on pressing need for action plan for mental wellbeing reforms (July 2020) (PDF 502kb)

Briefing to the Minister of Health including recommendation for statutory requirement for a mental wellbeing strategy (October 2019)

Briefing to the Minister of Health on the new Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (June 2019)

Briefing to the Minister of Health on the report of the Ministerial Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction (December 2018) (PDF 370kb)

Proposal to remove psychological medicine from Otago Medical School's compulsory curriculum for the sixth year programme (June 2020)

Mārama Real Time Feedback transitions to Ministry of Health February 2021 (August 2020)

 

Submissions

Submissions by HDC on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Bill December 2019

Submission by Mental Health Commissioner to the Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction May 2018

Submission by Mental Health Commissioner to the Incoming Minister of Health November 2017

Submission by Mental Health Commissioner to Health Select Committee August 2017

Submission by Mental Health Commissioner to Incoming Minister of Health, November 2017

 

Media releases

Critical challenges remain in transforming Aotearoa New Zealand’s approach to mental wellbeing (February 2021)

Mental Health Commissioner welcomes progress report on the Government's response to He Ara Oranga (June 2020)

Mental Health Commissioner welcomes Government response to He Ara Oranga (May 2019)

Shift of focus for Budget 2019 welcomed by Mental Health Commissioner (December 2018)

Response to Mental Health Inquiry (December 2018)

 

Other publications

Hīkaka te Manawa: Making a difference for rangatahi

Independent Evaluation of the HDC’s Electronic Real-time Feedback System

Mental Health Services Productivity Improvement: Best Practice Review

Last reviewed February 2021