The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand advocates for the new mental health law and accompanying system, service and practice changes to absolutely minimise compulsory treatment in our mental health system over the course of ten years, with immediate action to minimise its use significantly.
A move to a less coercive system must be facilitated by service and practice changes across the mental health and addiction system to ensure tāngata whaiora, whānau and health workers are appropriately supported and kept safe.
These changes should be led and informed by those with lived and living experience of the Mental Health Act, including tāngata whaiora Māori.
Compulsory treatment (pdf)