Panel’s goal of more mental healthcare in primary sector takes HIP new shape

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Panel’s goal of more mental healthcare in primary sector takes HIP new shape

Mental health and addiction, Robyn Shearer: responsible for overseeing activities and functions for mental health and addictions services, and leading the response to the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addictions. Started: 28 January.
The Ministry of Health mental health lead Robyn Shearer says the first funding round is one of many and is not the only solution

Health improvement practitioners (or, as some would say, HIPs) became a mental health theme for primary care this year, after the Government highlighted them in a post-Budget response to last year’s major inquiry panel report. Update by Virginia McMillan

A $6 million funding injection is start­ing to move from the Ministry of Health to the PHOs that fund mental health workers in new roles in general pr