Election 2020 - Party Policies - Health - Mental Health Services
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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Mental Health Services
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- Create a separate, stand-alone Mental Health and Addiction agency on a national scale, which would empower patients to choose between a range of providers, rather than simply accept what their DHB offers.
- Read more here.
- Ensure mental healthcare training and practice is grounded in holistic, humanistic perspectives that recognise each individual as whole.
- Encourage and enable mental health providers to work within multidisciplinary teams that include primary care and hold the well-being of the client at the heart of their practice.
- Ensure that, wherever possible, clients have a primary provider who remains with them through their recovery process.
- Fund innovative initiatives that indicate high recovery rates or that effectively facilitate mental health promotion and prevention of, for example, suicide.
- Read more here and here.
- Continue to train up to 12,000 community-based workers over the next three years, so more people seeking mental health and addiction support have someone to turn to, as part of our re-establishment of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.
- Read more here.
- Establish New Zealand’s first Minister for Mental Health to drive our mental health strategy.
- Strengthen our frontline with a primary care navigator in every General Practice.
- Implement a ‘national stepped care approach’ for commissioning and delivering services to provide a joined up and integrated network of mental health services.
- Establish a $10 million mental health support package for small and medium businesses where mental health has been identified as a concern.
- Fund life-saving mental wellbeing and suicide prevention workshops in our rural communities.
- Commit to a nationwide ‘Zero Suicides’ comprehensive multi-sector suicide prevention strategy
- Invest in a $10 million contestable fund to establish free psychological first aid training.
- Require schools to deliver a skills based mental health and resilience training program from years 1 to 13.
- Fund a new, fit for purpose baseline study of children and young people to understand the context and conditions underpinning the mental health of New Zealand’s youth.
- Read more here.
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