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Government failing to solve mental health

OPINION: Mental health service delivery will be treated as a symptom of the Labour Government’s problems, rather than a key election issue.

NBR columnist Brigitte Morten speaks with Brent Edwards.

Brigitte Morten Wed, 30 Nov 2022

Can the Government solve mental health? In 2017, it set expectations that it could. Now it seems to be setting expectations it can’t. 

Mental health is back in the news after Newshub revealed last week there are still only 605 acute mental health beds across the country. Unchanged since 2017. That

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