Primary Mental Health

A qualified mental health service within the primary care setting to support, deliver, educate and coordinate mental health & addiction services.

Service Info

Our Goals

  • To ensure that people living with mild to moderate mental health & addiction issues in the community are supported and are linked to the appropriate health services.

  • To work with people with mild to moderate mental health & addiction issues, who without support might require secondary mental health services.

  • Applying evidence based on mental health practice.

  • Upskill health professionals within primary care teams so that they work consistently in terms of ways they screen and assess people for mental health & addiction problems.

  • Educating Whānau about available mental health & addiction services at all levels of care.

  • To improve Whānau knowledge of mental health & addiction issues.

What we do

  • Undertake clinical assessments

  • Develop packages of care

  • Provide follow up assessments

  • Deliver brief interventions

  • Develop closer links with other health organisations