Mental Health and Addiction : Wins/Losses/Lessons/Strategies

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This page is a forum to facilitate discussion and dissemination of ideas, wins-losses and lessons learned from anyone currently engaged within the Mental health and addiction space . It is also intended for those who would like to learn more about the past, present and future of mental health and addiction services in Aotearoa.

Some of the themes that emerged from the Mental Health Symposium were around:

  1. Expand access and choice, does the one size fits all model work?
  2. Transform primary health care
  3. Strengthen the NGO sector
  4. Take a whole-of-government approach to wellbeing
  5. Facilitate mental health promotion and prevention
  6. Place people at the centre
  7. Take strong action on alcohol and other drugs
  8. Prevent suicide.
  9. Reform the Mental Health Act.
  10. Establish a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission
  11. Refer to the Health and Disability Sector Review for consideration
  12. Establish a cross-party working group on mental health and wellbeing

A few links to help get us started:
Better Start Program: https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/448151/Is-e-therapy-the-answer-to-our-youth-mental-health-issues.htm
https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/news.asp?id=448152&hhSearchTerms="HABITs"

The need for a an EMental Health strategy: https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/news.asp?id=415895&hhSearchTerms="anil"

Feel free to expand on the topic and add to the conversation.

Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe me he maunga teitei

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Kia ora Tom and other contributors,

I’m keen to be involved in these discussions. As a nurse who has worked in mental health for 30 years in a wide variety of roles and IT for 7, I’m interested in how innovation and best practice approaches can be enabled and supported in line with the Mental Health Enquiry recommendations.

I have not made it to one of the symposiums as I work mostly from home in Nelson but contribute to a couple of current nationally focused workforce development projects. I enjoy sharing ideas and working collaboratively across the sector and can also contribute to the historical side of things if that sort of knowledge is useful.

Looking forward to some useful discussion and connections Nga mihi Lois

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The first round of workshops have just concluded. More workshops to come.

https://healthcentral.nz/workshops-to-discuss-transformation-of-mental-health-services-begin/

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@derek.b Thanks for initiating the topic of a certification framework. I am very keen to hear more about the learnings from the Auckland group. Please feel free to invite the members of the group into this forum.

For those who may not have seen the Discussion Paper for Consultation Participants released by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, here is a link to the online PDF: https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/migrated/Discussion-Paper-Certifying-digital-mental-health-services-March-2019.pdf

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@lois Kia ora Lois, Welcome to the forum. It is incredibly inspiring to know that you have dedicated 30 years of your professional career towards the cause if mental health. I am keen to learn more, as I am sure are other members who might come across this forum.

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Hot off the press:

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Thank you Tom!

Best,

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Thinking about mental health communication? Be sure to look at mobile as an option:

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Hi everyone,
I am looking for a review of eReferral systems being utilised across New Zealand currently. Would anyone have information you could point me towards? Thanks

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Do you mean just in Mental Health or more widely? If more widely, I’d recommend posting a new topic - this emails everyone whereas a post in an existing thread does not.

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@NathanK I am looking for a wide sweeping information source. Having said that, mental health eReferrals are the core drivers for my question. I posted the request on a separate existing eReferral thread as well.

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Hi Tom I’ve just discovered this important thread, but the MH e-referral thread I can’t find. Very interested to discuss. Did you discover much? More relevant now than ever …