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Mental health in New Zealand

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. P. McGeorge
A. P. McGeorge*
Affiliation:
World Federation for Mental Health, email peter.mcgeorge@gmail.com
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Abstract

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New Zealand's healthcare system has undergone significant changes in recent times, among them being the establishment in 1993 of a purchaser/provider split and the specific attention given to the development of mental health services. Funding for mental health services (Fig. 1) increased from NZ$270 million in 1993/94 to NZ$866.6 million per annum in 2004/05, a real increase (adjusted for inflation) of 154% (Mental Health Commission, 2006). The bi-partisan political commitment sustaining this funding has had a major impact on the development of recovery-based and culturally specific models of care unrivalled by few countries in the world. However, recent reports (Mental Health Commission, 2006) indicate that, particularly with regard to access, much still remains to be done to address the mental health needs of New Zealanders.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 12 - 14
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