Our history
In 2007 Te Pou, The National Centre of Mental Health Research, Information and Workforce Development, successfully tendered for the contract to manage the Mental Health and Addiction Services Post-Entry Clinical Training (PECT) fund and portfolio on behalf of the Ministry of Health.
Previously, management of the fund sat within the Ministry and was managed by the Clinical Training Agency (CTA).
Te Pou has a passionate team that plans and funds clinical training, linked to Let's get real competencies and the other workforce centres' training activities.
PECT (post entry clinical training) as a name for the training fund was not well understood or known by the sector, who referred to it as CTA. The Ministry of Health direction was to rebrand PECT to ensure the terminology was simple and memorable.
A market research company was engaged to conduct in depth interviews and focus groups about what the new name would be and how the brand would look.