{"id":358372,"date":"2026-04-01T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:51:08","slug":"cornwall-health-initiative-reduces-pressure-and-saves-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358372\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall health initiative &#8216;reduces pressure and saves money&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chohan said: &#8220;The impact this is having on people who are going through difficult periods is transformational.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pengarth Day Centre, in Penzance, is one of the health hubs where staff are encouraged to keep an eye on residents and intervene before they need front-line services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chohan said: &#8220;This centre helps deal with social isolation, getting people connected again and that has a big effect on health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Here we have worked out that around \u00a311.6m has been saved and if you multiply that around the country it translate into hundreds of millions.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helpforce said data gathered between April 2024 and March 2025 showed the hubs in Cornwall recorded 339,951 attendances. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said research indicated without the hubs, 24% of users would have gone to their GP, 8% to hospital, and 6% would have called 999 \u2013 which generated the estimated saving figure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Users reported feeling happier, less lonely and more confident in managing their health and wellbeing, bosses said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chohan said: &#8220;The impact this is having on people who are going through difficult periods is transformational.&#8221; The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-358372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358372","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=358372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}