{"id":358144,"date":"2026-04-01T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358144\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:50:08","slug":"campaigners-fight-to-save-vital-mental-health-hub-in-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358144\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners fight to save &#8216;vital&#8217; mental health hub in Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patrick Ward, who said he represented service users, said the hub reduced pressure on NHS mental health services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These changes will not reduce costs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;On the contrary, they are likely to increase demand on NHS crisis services and adult social care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ward told a council meeting on 26 March the proposed changes would also lead to a &#8220;sudden and dangerous&#8221; loss of support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For many, the hub is a vital safety net,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Removing or significantly reducing it risks serious deterioration in both our mental and physical health.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Ward, who said he represented service users, said the hub reduced pressure on NHS mental health services.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-358144","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\/358144","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=358144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}