Slow and steady improvements in mental health and addiction service access.
Minister Matt Doocey's latest quarterly target updates have been released and show a small increase in the proportion of people being seen by specialist and primary services in under a month.
However shorter ED department stays are still far below the 95% target, rising slightly to 65%.
Doocey told Kerre Woodham it's a work in progress.
He says he believes there is no silver bullet, but improvements happen through the sum of every action, which is why they now have very clear targets.
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