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Website: Health and Disability Commissioner
Email: hdc@hdc.org.nz
Last Publication Date: 1 Nov 2010
This study aims to identify and analyse examples of New Zealand mental health services that have successfully adjusted service provision to meet the “high and complex…
New Zealand has a population of 4.3 million and, based on the New Zealand Mental Health Survey, 4.7% of people will experience severe mental health or…
This report provides an overview of workforce development requirements in the next five to 10 years within the context of changing modes of service delivery, including…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jul 2009
This review identifies a series of themes that are relevant to the development of peer support for users of mental health services. It looks at what…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jun 2008
This monitoring report details the progress towards the implementation of the Government’s national mental health strategy. It presents information on access to secondary mental health and…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2007
This inquiry focuses on elderly patients in a major metropolitan hospital. It examines complaints involving five patients whose reported experiences mirrored numerous complaints received by the…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jun 2005
Early in 2004 District Health Board Mental Health Managers and Clinical Directors raised concerns at the cost and time involved in the recruitment and use of…
In 2000, the Mental Health Commission published a report following a systematic survey of 1997-98 newspaper clippings “to analyse and describe how the newsprint media (re)…
Last Publication Date: 1 Mar 2005
The District Health Boards (DHBs) are charged with delivering health care for their resident populations under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. Mental…
Last Publication Date: 31 Jan 2005
Community-based services for acute mental illness are used in addition to inpatient services provision, and can provide a whole-system of care response. This paper investigated one…
