{"id":178345,"date":"2025-12-11T03:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178345\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:33:06","slug":"mental-health-psychosis-patients-failed-by-lack-of-official-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178345\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health: Psychosis patients failed by lack of official data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group New Script for Mental Health says it is trying to build a better understanding of and approach to mental health in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its spokesperson, Lisa Morrison, said the lack of available statistics is a form of &#8220;neglect&#8221; of people with mental health challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t have monitoring figures including how many are taking medication for psychotic behaviour, the effectiveness of that medication and crucially what is available for people apart from medication,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In England an antipsychotic prescribing report is published each quarter, meaning health organisations there can share information about the impact of the medication and who in the community requires follow-up appointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Morrison described the lack of that type of data in Northern Ireland as &#8220;unacceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that it makes it: &#8220;Difficult to assess anything about the prevalence, the impact of and the range of services out there to support men and women dealing with psychosis&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group New Script for Mental Health says it is trying to build a better understanding of and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-178345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}