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Improving Mental Health – a draft second national mental health and addiction plan 2005-2015

Consultation document


Submissions are now closed.

Date of publication: August 2004

ISBN 0-478-25706-6 (Book)
ISBN 0-478-25707-4 (Internet)

HP 3877



Improving Mental Health, a draft second national mental health and addiction plan is a strategic work plan that builds on the National Mental Health Strategy currently encapsulated in Looking Forward (Ministry of Health 1994) and Moving Forward (Ministry of Health 1997).

Improving Mental Health is set in the context of current government mental health policy, building on and modernising the National Mental Health Strategy to take account of the major changes in the health system and in mental health policy and service provision that have occurred since the National Mental Health Strategy was first developed.

The draft plan, to be used for consultation, is wide in its scope, covering the spectrum of interventions in mental health from promotion/prevention to primary care and specialist services. The draft sets out a vision, goals and principles, and is organised around seven interrelated strategic directions each with a series of related objectives and actions.

The strategic directions are:

  • more and better specialist services
  • more and better services for Maori
  • responsiveness of services
  • systems development
  • mental health in primary health care
  • mental health promotion and prevention
  • social inclusion – removing social and economic barriers to recovery.


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Improving Mental Health - consultation document

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