Mental Health Commission Introduction

The Mental Health Commission's task is to give the Government independent advice on how well mental health and addiction services are meeting the needs of people. We also advocate for improvements in the way mental illness and addiction are perceived and responded to.

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22 January 2010, Contacting the Right Help in a Psychiatric Emergency is Critical

The Mental Health Commission says that it is important to be clear about who to contact and what to expect...

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Evaluation of Youth One Stop Shops

http://www.mhc.govt.nz/users/Image/Resources/2010 Publications/youth-one-stop-shop-evaluation-report-v1.1.pdf

The objective of the Evaluation of Youth One Stop Shops was to assist the Ministry and District Health Boards (DHBs) to understand the current place of youth one stop shops (YOSS) in the continuum of health service provision, and provide an overview of how they provide health services for New Zealand youth.

Date of publication (online): December 2009

Brief summary and report were both provided by the Ministry of Health New Zealand.

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2010: Lets make this a mental health decade
18/01/2010

The new decade has opened and as we make or break our new years resolutions, mental health is still very...

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