{"id":444956,"date":"2026-05-12T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444956\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:46:09","slug":"nhs-ayrshire-arran-pledges-year-round-support-to-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444956\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Ayrshire &#038; Arran pledges &#8216;year-round&#8217; support to staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  While the activities are focused on the awareness week, the organisation has emphasised its year-round commitment to staff wellbeing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  NHS Ayrshire &amp; Arran is the first health board in Scotland to establish dedicated Staff Wellbeing Centres, which are located at University Hospitals Crosshouse, University Hospital Ayr, and Ayrshire Central Hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The centres provide all clinical and non-clinical staff with calm, non-clinical spaces to relax, decompress, and recharge during the working day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Services on offer include spiritual care, staff psychology, staff care, peer support, and medical peer support.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tracy Scott, staff wellbeing lead for NHS Ayrshire &amp; Arran, said: &#8220;We have a range of activities available to staff during Mental Health Awareness week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There are session on taking care of ourselves, spiritual care for staff, wellbeing for working parents, mental health matters, stress awareness, meditation, supporting financial wellbeing, supporting yourself and each other.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;These initiatives recognise that our mental wellbeing is influenced by a wide range of factors, including emotional, physical, spiritual and financial health.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the activities are focused on the awareness week, the organisation has emphasised its year-round commitment to staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-444956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}