Mental Health & Addictions Service

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As part of Health Waikato we provide a specialist mental health and addictions service to a population of more than 360,000 people in the Waikato region and employ over 400 staff.

Tokanui Hospital History UCNI Training Programme

The Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre opened in December 1997 following the closure of Tokanui Hospital. The facility provides inpatient care for people suffering a mental illness. There are three major service areas of care, Adult, Elderly and Forensic.

The Centre is a 108 bed mental health facility serving the Waikato DHB region and the Regional Forensic Service covers the wider Midland region which encompasses the Lakes, Taranaki and Bay of Plenty DHBs

Our service includes a crisis service, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for urgent situations. You can call them on 0800 50 50 50 if you have concerns.

• Adult Mental Health Service
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
• Intellectual Disability - Dual Diagnosis
• Regional Forensic Psychiatric & Rehabilitation Service
• Regional Forensic Psychiatric Service
• Rehabilitation Services
• Specialty & Rural Services, including:
• Mental Health Services for Older People
• Alcohol & Drug Service  
• Child & Adolescent Service
• Maternal Mental Health
• Rural Services

• Junior doctors (Registered Medical Officer) training
  
  
• Graduate Nurse Programme - Mental Health & Addictions

If you have any queries - please email mentalhealth@waikatodhb.govt.nz

Papers published

• El-Badri S, Mellsop G.
  Patient and staff perspectives on the use of seclusion.
  Australas Psychiatry. 2008 Aug;16(4):248-52
  
  
• Krawitz R, Jackson W.
  Consumer-clinician co-taught training about borderline personality disorder.
  Australas Psychiatry. 2008 Oct;16(5):333-5.