{"id":308684,"date":"2026-03-02T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:53:07","slug":"labour-promises-same-day-mental-health-help-if-it-wins-senedd-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308684\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour promises same-day mental health help if it wins Senedd election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour says it will roll out &#8220;easy-to-access&#8221; mental health services across Wales should it win the next Senedd election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First Minister Eluned Morgan will launch her party&#8217;s election campaign in Newport on Monday, promising to &#8220;focus on the things that make the biggest difference to daily life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour said it would &#8220;transform&#8221; mental health care with same-day services, with tests taking place in all of the country&#8217;s seven health boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan&#8217;s party has been in charge in Wales since the Senedd&#8217;s predecessor, the National Assembly for Wales, opened 27 years ago &#8211; opinion polls suggest it could come third behind Plaid Cymru and Reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour says it will roll out &#8220;easy-to-access&#8221; mental health services across Wales should it win the next Senedd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-308684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308684","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=308684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}