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