Mental Health

Te Kōkiri: Implementation Work Programme 2006-2009
Advisory Group

The Ministry of Health and District Health Boards are committed to continuing to work collaboratively with the wider mental health and addiction sector throughout the implementation of Te Kōkiri. Both the Ministry and District Health Boards currently have a number of mechansims for consulting with, and seeking the views of, the wider sector. These will continue.

This Advisory Group is one mechanism for continuing to build on the positive partnerships that exist.

• Purpose
• Terms of Reference
• Members
• Meetings

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Purpose

The Advisory Group provides an opportunity for the wider mental health and addiction sector to:

• engage with the Ministry of Health and District Health Boards on the implementation of Te Kōkiri: The Mental Health and Addiction Action Plan 2006-2015
• receive feedback from DHBs and the Ministry on progress in meeting the actions in Te Kōkiri
• provide additional advice to the Ministry and DHBs on aspects relating to the implementation of Te Kōkiri.

The Advisory Group has no direct decision-making role.

Terms of Reference

• Terms of Reference: Advisory Group (Word, 37 KB)
• Terms of Reference: Advisory Group (PDF, 96 KB)

Members

Individuals were invited to join the Advisory Group on the basis of their individual expertise, rather than as representatives of any particular organisation or section of the mental health sector. There is one exception to this, a representative of the Mental Health Commission.

People who were on the Advisory Group to develop Te Kōkiri were invited to continue and a number of new members included.

A list of the members of the Advisory Group is below:

• Memo Musa, Chief Executive Officer Whanganui District Health Board (Chair)
• Janice Wilson, Deputy Director-General Population Health Directorate, Ministry of Health (Deputy-Chair)
• Ana Sokratov
• Anne Helm
• Cate Kearney
• Francis Agnew
• Helen Rodenburg
• Jeanie Truell
• Judi Clements
• Julie Nelson
• Justine Harris
• Kath Fox
• Kaye Carncross
• Manu Sione
• Margaret Aimer
• Maxine Gay
• Patrick Au
• Nick Judson
• Ray Watson (Mental Health Commission)
• Rees Tapsell
• Rhonda Robertson
• Siale Alo Foliaki
• Shelley Campbell
• Sue Hallwright
• Te Puea Winiata
• Vince Barry

All members of the Work Group attend Advisory Group meetings.

Meetings

The Advisory Group will meet two times each year in March and October.

The Terms of Reference and membership of the Advisory Group are initially for one year and will be reviewed by December 2007.

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