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ReviewBJPsych international2025

Mental health and addiction services and reform in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

Peter McGeorge, Susanna Every-Palmer

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Review in BJPsych international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Peter McGeorgeUniversity of Canberra, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3562-5003
Susanna Every-PalmerDepartment of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago Wellington, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6455-9741

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper reviews the development of Aotearoa-New Zealand's (New Zealand's) specialist Mental Health and Addiction Services (MH&A Services) and Mental Health and Addiction plans (MH&A Plans) to improve the mental well-being of all New Zealanders. It does so in the context of New Zealand's 2022 health reforms, and the government's response to its 2018 Inquiry into MH&A (He Ara Oranga). First, the context for reform is described, including New Zealand's sociodemography, existing data monitoring systems, mental health epidemiology and a current overview of its specialist MH&A Services. The findings of the He Ara Oranga Inquiry and the goals of the MH&A plans are then outlined, along with progress in establishing new initiatives related to them. Finally, challenges to the new direction for New Zealand's MH&A system are reviewed, with possible strategies to address them and other key implementation challenges involving the separation and operationalisation of the main strategies of MH&A plans. A high-level view of MH&A Services is taken, rather than one detailing speciality services such as age-related, cultural or addiction services.

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healthcare reformhealth policyMental healthNew Zealandsubstance-related disorders

Identifiers

PMID41952788
PMCPMC13054147

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