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About the Ministry of Health and the New Zealand health system. 

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These documents outline Cabinet decisions related to the 2023 annual update on progress preventing suicide as part of implementing Every Life Matters – He Tapu te Oranga o ia Tangata: Suicide Prevention Strategy 2019 –2029 and Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2019 –2024 for Aotearoa New Zealand (He Tapu te Oranga). It includes information about what is being done to implement the He Tapu te Oranga actions, as well as high-level information and data on suicide rates among different populations, and information on wider government programmes that are contributing to suicide prevention.

Some information in the Cabinet minute has been redacted as it is out of scope of this release.

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