{"id":165199,"date":"2025-09-28T04:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165199\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T04:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:06:21","slug":"kennet-and-avon-nhs-staff-reach-out-to-boaters-at-canalside-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165199\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennet and Avon NHS staff reach out to boaters at canalside session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS staff have stepped out of their surgeries for the day &#8220;to connect and build trust&#8221; with local boaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 2,000 people are predicted to be living on Wiltshire&#8217;s canals and with many of them constantly on the move, it can make visiting the doctor difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ayesha Khanam, from the East Kennet Primary Care Network, said: &#8220;Part of our health and equalities initiative is to look at areas and cohorts of people who have the most amount of trouble reaching us at the surgery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that is why the Kennet and Avon team wanted to put together a drop in session at Pewsey Wharf, which took place on Wednesday, and is looking at putting on more outreach services in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS staff have stepped out of their surgeries for the day &#8220;to connect and build trust&#8221; with local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-165199","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}