The Commissioners seventh annual report says that there is a growing recognition that mental health is not just the business of the mental health sector. The report comments on the years performance and the projects undertaken in that year. 66 pages.
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This report describes and analyses all the major work in New Zealand to counter discrimination against people with experience of mental illness. (88 pages)
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The purpose of this paper is to answer the question, are mental health services in New Zealand responsive to people with trauma histories. It looks at the link between abuse and mental illness and what service users say about this link. It investigates how mental service services are responding and recommends some next steps.
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This discussion paper prepared for the Mental Health Commission by Fuimaono Karl Pulotu-Endemann, Magila Annandale and Annette Instone provides a Pacific perspective on the policy implications arising from the New Zealand Mental Health Classification and Outcomes Study (CAOS). The paper summarises the CAOS evidence focussing on Pacific-specific information. (52 pages)
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This paper reports on the views and deliberations over the two-day Sector Leader Forum convened by the Minister of Health to contribute to the development of the Second Mental Health Plan.
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An amendment to the Smoke-free Environments Act has prompted this paper, which investigates how acute services can move towards becoming smoke-free.
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The purpose of this vision was to guide the development of the Ministry of Healths second mental health plan and to influence the overall development of the services and sectors that affect people with mental illness. It is not a Mental Health Commission publication, but the Commission was very pleased to assist with its production. (28 pages)
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This paper presents a framework for delivering mental health services to people experience a crisis, for consideration by mental health services. (four pages)
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This report presents the findings and recommendation of Stage one of the review of the quality of DHB mental health service information sharing policies. Qualitative information was also collected on perceptions of current DHB practices. Stage two, of the project will focus on the training DHBs propose to provide to clinical staff on privacy and information sharing issues. Stage three will look at changes in practice as a result of the training. Findings and recommendations of these stages will be presented to the Minister in subsequent reports. (36 pages)
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This report provides a description and analysis of the constraints that affect, or may affect, the mental health workforce. It considers how these constraints are being dealt with in New Zealand and elsewhere, and where possible, suggests strategies for releasing these constraints. It was prepared at the Centre for Health Services Research and Policy, University of Auckland. (35 pages)
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This review of mental health services expenditure includes issues to be addressed and recommendations on how to do this.
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A report on progress towards reaching the objectives of the National Mental Health Strategy and the guidelines in the Commissions Blueprint for Mental Health Services.
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This report discusses the findings of the Commissions two year review of seclusion from human rights, policy and practice perspectives. It examines the magnitude of seclusion use in New Zealand, provides an explanation of that magnitude by explaining the context of the acute unit, and investigates arguments surrounding human rights, duty of care, and therapeutic value.
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International research suggests service users die at 2.5 to 4.3 times the rate of the general population, even when suicide has been factored out. This paper examines selected literature and attempts to answer the following questions: In what areas do service users have worse mortality (death) and morbidity (disease) rates than the general population? Why are service users more physically unwell and dying younger than the general population? What are possible solutions to these problems?
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Seventeen percent of people accessing mental health services are Maori. The Commission hopes that this report on delivery of cultural assessment will provide some guidance to services in the changes needed to improve the integration of clinical and cultural care, and ensure that quality services are available for Maori in Maori-specific or mainstream mental health services.
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