Carer's Strategy
CARER STRATEGY –
Under Priority No.2 Protect the Health and Wellbeing of Carers, there is
an action point (No.3) that refers specifically to mental
illness. It is as follows:
Improve mechanisms for providing informal carers of people with mental
illness or addiction with supports in the health sector through revised
specifications for those services.
This action will include:
• Considering improvements to the mechanisms for providing supports to
carers who are families, whanau, aiga or friends of people accessing
mental health and addiction services through a review of service
specifications for those services;
• A focus on the range and types of supports available for families of
children with a mental illness.
Download a copy of the Carers' Strategy from the MSD website www.msd.govt.nz