The Mental Health Commission

Future Directions

Our Vision

New Zealand will be a nation where NZers have the means to sustain their mental health and wellbeing, and when any one of us experience mental illness and/or addictions, we are able to lead our recovery by participating in our communities and accessing high quality, responsive services.

The Past YearWhat’s happened?

Commission now operating under amended legislation until 2015

Our Current Functions

Under the 2007 Act• Advocate for interests of

people with mental illness and their families

• Promote and facilitate collaboration about MH issues

• Promote better understanding of mental illness and to reduce associated stigma and prejudice

• Monitor, report to and advice the Minister on the implementation of the National MH Strategy

Our Current Functions (continued)

• Stimulate and support development of effective, integrated systems of providing care to meet community needs

• Stimulate and undertake research

How we work

Our work is guided by

1. The needs of those with mental illness and their family whanau

2. The National Mental Health Strategy

Our Recent Achievements

• Developed a monitoring framework

• Streamlined and strengthened DSV

• Produced reports on both the Elderly and Children and Youth

• Prepared papers on Social Inclusion and Family Inclusion

The Way Ahead

• A Challenging Environment

• Te Tahuhu

• The Minister’s priorities

Many Challenges

• Ageing population• Funding• Binge drinking & drug abuse• Services for co-existing MH & A disorders• Developing recovery-oriented alternatives to

acute in-patient care• Strengthening the role of PHOs• Collaboration in development of regional

services• Reducing stigma and discrimination

Te TahuhuTe Tahuhu10 leading challenges10 leading challenges

• Promotion and preventionPromotion and prevention• Building mental health and addictions servicesBuilding mental health and addictions services• ResponsivenessResponsiveness• Workforce and culture for recoveryWorkforce and culture for recovery• Maori mental healthMaori mental health• Primary healthcarePrimary healthcare• AddictionsAddictions• Funding mechanisms for recoveryFunding mechanisms for recovery• Transparency and trustTransparency and trust• Working togetherWorking together

Monitoring Advocacy

Recovery andwell-being

Reducestigma &discrim.

QualityServices

EffectiveFunding

Strategic objectives

Outcome

GoalEffective

recovery focusedservices

Output classes

Minister’s prioritiesMinister’s priorities

• AccessAccess

• Primary mental healthcarePrimary mental healthcare

• Acute servicesAcute services

• High and complex needsHigh and complex needs

• Family inclusionFamily inclusion

• Workforce developmentWorkforce development

• Effective fundingEffective funding

Effective FundingEffective Funding

• Assessment of funding effectiveness in Assessment of funding effectiveness in delivering Te Tahuhudelivering Te Tahuhu

• Recommendations made on future funding Recommendations made on future funding models.models.

Quality and SafetyQuality and Safety

• Access Access • Identify and workshop exemplars of primary Identify and workshop exemplars of primary

health initiatives addressing the needs of people health initiatives addressing the needs of people with high prevalence disorders and how they are with high prevalence disorders and how they are best supported by specialist and secondary best supported by specialist and secondary servicesservices

• Report and workshops on improving access to Report and workshops on improving access to and integration of acute services across the and integration of acute services across the primary, secondary and NGO interfacesprimary, secondary and NGO interfaces

• Symposium identifies new technologies that can Symposium identifies new technologies that can support access to mental health advice and support access to mental health advice and treatment treatment

Quality and SafetyQuality and Safety

Improved models of careImproved models of care

• Report and workshops based on exemplars of integrated Report and workshops based on exemplars of integrated care for people with high and complex needscare for people with high and complex needs

• Report and workshops delivered based on whole of life Report and workshops delivered based on whole of life approaches to careapproaches to care

• Workshops based on development of whanau ora across Workshops based on development of whanau ora across Maori mental health servicesMaori mental health services

• Report and workshops highlighting importance and Report and workshops highlighting importance and methodology for supporting wellness of people with methodology for supporting wellness of people with mental illness, including physical healthmental illness, including physical health

Quality and SafetyQuality and Safety

Service user and family influenceService user and family influence

• Appointment of MHC service user and Appointment of MHC service user and family/whanau advisorsfamily/whanau advisors

• Revision of Family Code of Rights Revision of Family Code of Rights • Advocate for the appointment of DHB family Advocate for the appointment of DHB family

advisorsadvisors• Service users and their families involved in the Service users and their families involved in the

development of the DHB regional report card development of the DHB regional report card • National service user newsletter producedNational service user newsletter produced• Improved communications with service user and Improved communications with service user and

family/whanau networksfamily/whanau networks

Quality and SafetyQuality and Safety

MonitoringMonitoring

• District Sector meetings with service users, families, District Sector meetings with service users, families, community members, NGO and DHB staff community members, NGO and DHB staff

• Workforce Workforce • Service user access to housing, income and workService user access to housing, income and work• Regional/DHB report cards that identify progress with Te Regional/DHB report cards that identify progress with Te

Tahuhu and the delivery of quality, recovery-oriented Tahuhu and the delivery of quality, recovery-oriented servicesservices

• Regular reports to the Minister of HealthRegular reports to the Minister of Health

Reducing stigma Reducing stigma and discriminationand discrimination

• Multi-Agency Anti-discrimination Plan Multi-Agency Anti-discrimination Plan targets met for current yeartargets met for current year

• Human and family rights affirmed in new Human and family rights affirmed in new mental health and addictions legislationmental health and addictions legislation

How Portfolio Managers can assist the Commission’s Work

• Remember the 10 challenges of Te Tahuhu

• Aim for joined up and seamless mental health and addiction services

• Where possible consult with a wide range of parties, especially families and consumers

• Remember that you provide leadership in funding decisions