{"id":377570,"date":"2026-04-06T08:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377570\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:27:07","slug":"kent-and-medway-mental-health-services-now-run-by-one-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377570\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent and Medway mental health services now run by one trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first time in Kent and Medway, children and young people&#8217;s mental health services (CAMHS), adult mental health services, and care for eating disorders are being run by one local NHS mental health trust.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From April 2026, Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust has begun supporting CAMHS, a service previously provided by a London health trust. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patients are being told they will see the same clinicians, in the same places and use the same contact details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheila Stenson, chief executive of the trust, said it was a &#8220;landmark moment&#8221; for mental health care in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in Kent and Medway, children and young people&#8217;s mental health services (CAMHS), adult mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-377570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}