This is a summary of the business goals for HealthCare NZ’s Mental Health & Addictions Service over 2006/07.

HealthCare NZ want to build a sustainable service that will grow to provide mental health and addiction support around the country.  The business plan for 2006/07 outlines four key areas that this sustainability can be achieved.

• Our commitment to staff.
• Our commitment to quality.
• Our commitment to the service.
• Our commitment to the future.
  

Our commitment to staff

We expect staff to be able to deliver high quality services to a diverse range of people.  In order to better support staff to provide high standards of support we expect the following goals to be achieved:

• 100% compliance to the training requirements for Mental Health Support Workers as set out in our internal learning and development pathway The Learning Journey.
• 80% implementation of our cultural training Awhi te Tangata to all mental health staff by June 2007.
• 50% implementation of Pacific Peoples training to all mental health staff by June 2007.
• Development of a Mental Health Coordinator leadership training package.
  

Our commitment to quality

Our achievement of both internal and external measures of quality is very important to HealthCare NZ.  The Mental Health and Addiction service will be measured through:

• Developing and implementing a mental health auditing tool.
• Achieving certification through DAA Group.
  

Our commitment to the service

HealthCare NZ want to build a sustainable Mental Health and Addictions service that can be grown throughout New Zealand.  Goals that will support this over 2006/07 includes:

• Employing a Mental Health Coordinator to support the service in Taranaki.
• Increasing the mental health workforce in the rural areas of Whakatane, Waikato, Rotorua and Tauranga, and in Taupo and Taranaki.
  

Commitment to the future

In order to support the service for growth for the future, the Mental Health & Addiction service needs to develop new models of support. 

• Participate in the Lakes, Capital & Waikato Bed Modelling projects during 2007.
• Participate in the development of the Lakes Child & Adolescent project and the Waikato Child & Adolescent Continuum review in early 2007.
• Develop the HealthCare NZ sub-acute model.