Dashboards
Areas of work for 7-day follow up
Note: Northland has incomplete data since April 2025.
7-day follow up dashboards
The 7-day follow-up is also known as acute inpatient post-discharge community care. These dashboards benchmark how many people are followed up in community settings within seven days of leaving an acute mental health inpatient service.
The percentage of people discharged from acute inpatient mental health services and seen in a community setting within seven days. All dashboards can be filtered by financial year, quarter (a three-month period) and demographic information.
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The setting for this indicator is community.
Why 7-day follow up matters
The days immediately after discharge from inpatient mental health services can be a particularly vulnerable time for some people. Research shows this period carries increased risk for readmission and self-harm.
Research shows a worrying number of people die by suicide within the first week or month after being discharged from inpatient mental health care. Between 2001 and 2015, 171 people (nearly seven percent of all tāngata whai ora who died by suicide within a year of service contact) had died within just one week of being discharged (Manatū Hauora Ministry of Health, 2019).
