5028 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health

5028 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health: What progress, if any, has been made in the quarter October to December 2024 to achieve the expectation ‘Implement an increasingly integrated mix of prevention, primary, community and specialist services for mental health and addiction, and suicide prevention, including community based alternatives for acute care and a focus on prevention and early intervention to reduce the impact of mental health and addiction’ under the objective ‘1.1 Improve access to and choice of primary and community health care services, and diversify the points of entry and support throughout a person’s health care journey’ within the Government Policy Statement on Health 2024–2027?

Hon Simeon Brown: Our Government is focused on delivering timely, quality healthcare for all New Zealanders. As has been said to the Member in previous Written Parliamentary Question replies, Health New Zealand will give effect to the Government Policy Statement through the New Zealand Health Plan. I refer the Member to Written Parliamentary Question 60017 (2024).