{"id":487341,"date":"2026-02-20T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:30:08","slug":"mental-health-patients-in-maidstone-to-get-virtual-reality-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487341\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health patients in Maidstone to get virtual reality holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He originally presented the idea to the trust&#8217;s internal creativity programme, The Innovation Den, where staff get the opportunity to suggest practical ideas to improve patient care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kendall, who is forensic psychiatry registrar at the trust, said: &#8220;While we haven&#8217;t launched the project with patients just yet, we have been training the staff on how to use the headset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The team on the ward has been fantastic and are really enthusiastic about what this has to offer in providing patients with a brief escape and moments of joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust hopes that, by transporting them to familiar or relaxing locations, the   immersive, 360-degree experience will reduce stress and anxiety and ease restlessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He originally presented the idea to the trust&#8217;s internal creativity programme, The Innovation Den, where staff get the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-487341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}