{"id":418546,"date":"2026-01-17T06:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:39:11","slug":"essex-mental-health-trust-to-open-two-new-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418546\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex mental health trust to open two new units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While smaller than a similar unit that opened in Basildon in 2023, each centre will have specialist mental health staff on site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Feedback from patients suggested these types of treatment centres were having a &#8220;huge&#8221; impact, according to EPUT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Abell, chief executive of the NHS Essex Integrated Care Board cluster, said demand for mental health crisis care was rising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These units will make a real difference by ensuring people across Essex can access timely, specialist support in calm, therapeutic spaces,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">EPUT provides services to more than 100,000 patients at any one time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deaths of more than 2,000 people, who were being cared for by EPUT and the North East London NHS Foundation Trust, are being examined at the Lampard Inquiry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It aims to understand what happened to patients who died at inpatient units between 2000 and the end of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While smaller than a similar unit that opened in Basildon in 2023, each centre will have specialist mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-418546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}