About us Mō mātou

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

Regulation & legislation Ngā here me ngā ture

Health providers and products we regulate, and laws we administer.

Strategies & initiatives He rautaki, he tūmahi hou

How we’re working to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders.

Māori health Hauora Māori

Increasing access to health services, achieving equity and improving outcomes for Māori.

Statistics & research He tatauranga, he rangahau

Data and insights from our health surveys, research and monitoring.

Percentage service users accessing inpatient and community services

Data from 2021/22 onwards can be extracted from the webtool Mental Health and Addiction: Service Use web tool – Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora

PP6 (MH01) - Improving the health status of people with severe mental illness through improved access

Note: Nelson Marlborough DHB provider arm has not reported to PRIMHD for over a year as at August 2019 which was impacting on their (and national) access rates.

MH02 - Improving mental wellbeing: Improving mental health services using transition (discharge) planning

The tables show the percentage of all service users with a transition(discharge)/wellness plans by quarter and the self-assessed quality of the plans for each DHB’s mental health and addiction community and inpatient services. DHBs do not use a uniform reporting system, and a blank indicates the DHB has not collected data rather than that it has no transition plans in place.

MH02 Transitions plans for 2018/19 to 2021/22

Data from 2021/22 onwards can be obtained by contacting [email protected]

Transition plan by DHB of domicile 2018/19 to 2020/21

PP8 (MH03): Shorter waits for non-urgent mental health and addiction services

Note: From 21/22 PP8 was no longer a performance measure. This has been replaced by the Health System Indicator (HSI) indicator - Waiting times for under 25-year-olds to specialist mental health services: Health System Indicators framework: Measuring how well the health and disability system serves New Zealanders.

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