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Ministry of Health rejects Gumboot Friday funding plea Thu, 1 Jul 2021, 12:19PM Monetary assistance for Gumboot Friday has been declined weeks after Mike King handed back his NZ Order of Merit medal due to lack of mental health funding. (Photo / Instagram) Ministry of Health rejects Gumboot Friday funding plea Thu, 1 Jul 2021, 12:19PM The Ministry of Health has rejected a plea for funding from Gumboot Friday, which provides free counselling for young people in New Zealand, according to Mike King. King, the founder of Gumboot Friday, posted the news on s...

Braden Fastier/Stuff Health Minister Andrew Little announces the next tranche of funding for the Government’s roll-out of frontline services nationwide to support people with mild to moderate mental health and addiction needs. “I'm not convinced it was,” he said. “When you look at the demographics of our elected DHB representatives across the county, they weren't particularly representative of a whole heap of communities.” The reforms provided an opportunity to strengthen and enrich community input into health services, Little said. That goal would be achieved via locality plannin...

GPs can also refer patients to Te Tumu Waiora staff employed by non-government organisations. Under the scheme the Government provides funding for mental health staff, but GPs are required to provide a space for them to work with patients. The CDHB has spent $4.3m of the budget to fund 17 HIPs and 25 health coaches – new roles created for the programme – across 15 medical centres, acting planning and funding manager Ralph La Salle said. He indicated the underspending was a result of a lack of GP “readiness”, staff and access to training. The CDHB is working with the Ministry of ...

Māori TV The mental health sector was one of the biggest winners in the 2019 Budget, getting funding to the tune of $1.9b. (Video first published July 16, 2020) Funding of $600,000 for new mental health services is yet to be spent in Canterbury, with some GPs saying they cannot afford to provide space for the Government programme. The Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) confirmed it was allocated $4.9 million for mental health services in general practices in 2020-21 as part of a $40m national budget for Te Tumu Waiora, the Government’s integrated primary mental health and addiction (...