Requested by: NZ Herald | Response provided: 25/03/2022
Category: Mental Health,Recruitment
  1. Data showing the total population covered by the DHB’s mental health and addiction services at the end of December 2021.
  2. Data showing the total number of full-time staff employed by the DHB’s mental health services in each of the last three years to the end of December 2021, particularly the number of psychiatrists, psychologists, and nurses.
  3. A breakdown for each of the past three years to December 2021 showing the number of fulltime psychiatrists, psychologists, and nurses employed in each of your mental health and addiction teams (eg alcohol and drug, child and youth, community, inpatient units etc).
  4. Data showing the number of vacancies for psychiatrists, psychologists, and nurses in each of those three years to December 2021, broken down by teams.
  5. Data showing the number of psychiatrists, psychologists, and nurses who left the DHB’s mental health and addiction services in each of those three years to December 2021, broken down by teams.
  6. Details of what regular updates are received by the mental health and addiction service’s senior leadership on workforce and/or recruitment. (For example, do they have access to a dashboard of key metrics that provides data in real time; do they receive weekly or monthly written reports; which key metrics do they track.) If applicable, please provide copies of the three most recent updates.
  7. Copies of key documents held by senior management created in the last two years that were substantially about the challenges in recruitment and/or the impact of staffing pressures on services.
  8. Copies of key documents held by senior management created in the last two years that were substantially about the state of or challenges in CAMHS services.
  9. Copies of key documents held by senior management created in the last two years that were substantially about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on your mental health and addiction services.

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