There is currently no inpatient data in the 7-day follow up, 28-day readmission, and continuity of care dashboards. We are working on resolving this as quickly as we can. Please contact us at info@mhakpi.health.nz, Ngā mihi, the KPI Programme team.

Seclusion

Seclusion indicator dashboards describe the frequency and duration of seclusion events that occur in acute mental health inpatient units across Aotearoa New Zealand

Why

There is a clear rationale for continuously using data to monitor the use of seclusion in inpatient mental health services. Evidence over the past decade supports the need to reduce the use of seclusion and other restrictive practices. Seclusion has adverse physical and psychological impacts on both the people and staff involved (Askew, Fisher, & Beazley, 2019; Cusack et al., 2018; Hawsawi et al., 2020; Mellow, Tickle, & Rennoldson,2017). Click here to read more evidence about this indicator.

Populations

Seclusion indicator dashboards are built using criteria specific to adult populations (20–64-years), but provide age filters for child and youth (0-19 years) and older people (65 and over), where services report this data into PRIMHD. Click here to learn more about PRIMHD

All KPI Programme indicators provide demographic information by age, gender, and ethnicity.

Data available through August 2025, sourced from the 26 January 2026 refresh of the PRIMHD DataMart.

Please note:

  • Northland has incomplete community and very little inpatient data since April 2025
  • MidCentral has incomplete data for October 2025

If you have any improvement ideas or feedback please email us at mhakpi.health.nz

Indicator dashboards

National summary

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District service summary

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Forensic national summary

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Te Tāhū Hauora Zero Seclusion Measures

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National summary

This indicator provides a national overview of seclusion within a single financial quarter. It includes the number of seclusion events as well as the number of unique tāngata whai ora secluded. Both of these values are compared against the previous quarter and by month across the previous year.

Seclusion events, secluded tāngata whai ora, and seclusion duration are presented by demographics (age, ethnicity, and gender), and as seclusion events per 1000 bednights and per 100k population.

The dashboard can be filtered by financial quarter and key demographics (age, gender, and prioritised ethnicity).

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District service summary

This dashboard provides individual district summaries of seclusion data. It includes the number of seclusion events as well as the number of unique tāngata whai ora secluded. Both of these values are compared against the previous quarter and by month across the previous year.

Seclusion events, secluded tāngata whai ora, and seclusion duration are presented by krey demographics (age, ethnicity, and gender), and as seclusion events per 1000 bednights and per 100k population.

Shift patterns of seclusion events and duration are also presented.

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Forensic national summary

This dashboard is similar to the national quarterly summary, except only data from forensic teams is included. Additional shift information is also presented.

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Te Tāhū Hauora Zero Seclusion Measures

This dashboard is a replica of the Zero Seclusion Outcome Measures report, developed by Te Tāhū Hauora|Health Quality and Safety Commission in 2020.

The logic definition for this dashboard was provided by Te Tāhū Hauora; it compares seclusion events and tāngata whai ora numbers to total inpatient numbers.

Please note: This logic is different from the one used by the KPI Programme seclusion data dashboards and therefore cannot be cross-checked.

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