11. Health Services—District Health Board Funding Auditor-General's Report and Mental Health ServicesDr DAVID CLARK (Labour—Dunedin North) to the Minister of HealthHealth Services—District Health Board Funding Auditor-General's Report and Mental Health Services11. Dr DAVID CLARK (Labour—Dunedin North) to the Minister of Health: Does he stand by his office's statement that the $644.8 million calculated by the Ministry of Health as the amount needed by DHBs to meet their total cost pressures this year was a wish list" figure and is that why they only received $400 million for cost pressures?Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN (Minister of Health): Yes although I would note that the member's question refers to last year's Budget while the rest of Parliament has jumped ahead to Budget 2017. I am assuming it was an honest mistake but I would ask the member to keep up with the play.Dr David Clark: Was the Ministry of Health wrong when it said that the district health boards (DHBs) needed $644.8 million to meet all demographic wage and inflationary cost pressures this year?Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: Once again I would invite the member to get out from behind the eight ball and start focusing on Budget 2017. But as I said in the primary answer yes.Dr David Clark: What was the wish-list figure for district health boards to meet their total cost pressures given to him for the 2017-18 year by the Ministry of Health?Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: Well we have now got up to date. But look the standard formula around cost pressures is the DHB allocation plus around 1 percent savings of the baseline each year.Dr David Clark: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I listened very carefully and I did not—Mr SPEAKER: I am going to invite the member to repeat the question.Dr David Clark: What was the wish-list figure for district health boards to meet their total cost pressures given to him for the 2017-18 year by the Ministry of Health?Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: As I said it is usually around the amount of the allocation plus about 1 percent of the baseline.Dr David Clark: Has he seen the Auditor-General's damning report tabled in Parliament today which although narrow in scope finds that in-patient units have high occupancy rates sometimes beyond their capacity that the pressures on in-patient units and community services need to be addressed and that more work is needed to systematically gather and use feedback from people using mental health services and those supporting them?Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: Yes I have seen that report. That was an audit taken 14 months ago; there has been extensive work by the Ministry of Health since then. In the back of the report there is a letter from the Director-General of Health Chai Chuah that details what has been done. There has also been a Health Quality and Safety Commission initiative taken around discharge planning. It is an important report of course. It is a very helpful report 3 months out from the election and the points that it highlights are being addressed and will be helped of course by the $224 million of mental health funding allocated in the Budget—part of a record $888 million for health overall taking the Budget to a record $16.77 billion. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! I certainly do not expect the member to address any member—it may well have been me actually. I do not expect that member to say that to any other member in this House. He can proceed with his supplementary question.Dr David Clark: When will he finally concede that a review of mental health services and funding is urgently needed given the evidence and requests made in the People's Mental Health Review the resignation of Mike King from the committee reviewing the suicide strategy the petition of the Life Matters Suicide Prevention Trust currently before Parliament and now today's damning report on mental health provision delivered by the Auditor-General?Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: Last week I was meeting with health Ministers at the World Health Organization and they were all saying that of the three major disease groupings—non-communicable diseases infectious diseases and finally this big one around mental health disorders—mental health is the big one that everyone across the Western World is really focusing on. It has changed a lot even in the past 2 years. So what we are going to do is make sure that $224 million goes to improving and strengthening services and as I say it is part of a record $888 million for health in this Budget."