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\n Manx Care’s announced it’s expanding a new mental health service to nine more GP practices.\n <\/p>\n
It follows a successful pilot scheme for the Mental Health First Contact Practitioner programme.<\/p>\n
The service aims to get more people early access to mental health support, and ease pressure on GP appointments.<\/p>\n
The health service says specialist practitioners will be able to assess people and offer short-term care for conditions like anxiety, stress and low mood – without seeing a doctor first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 1 April 2026 15:55 Manx Care’s announced it’s expanding a new mental health service to nine more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1499,1494,1493,1496,1523,1505,1545,1546,1547,1548,1524,1533,1525,102,1503,1551,1504,1543,755,1517,1540,1541,1538,1509,1529,1532,1522,1490,1510,1491,1492,1519,1530,1531,1539,1544,1542,1508,1507,1506,756,1512,1511,1550,1906,6623,1501,1528,1500,1521,1527,128,1516,1537,1498,1534,1536,1526,1518,1520,1497,1502,1495,1549,1513,1515,1514,56,1535,54,55],"class_list":["post-508647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-3-f-m","tag-3-fm","tag-3fm","tag-3fmradio","tag-ben-sowrey","tag-club-classics","tag-commonwealth-youth-games","tag-cyg","tag-cyg-2011","tag-cyg2011","tag-derek-richardson","tag-energy-fm","tag-george-ferguson","tag-health","tag-iom","tag-iom-news","tag-iomradio","tag-isle-of-deals","tag-isle-of-man","tag-isle-of-man-advertising","tag-isle-of-man-android","tag-isle-of-man-deals","tag-isle-of-man-facebook","tag-isle-of-man-marketing","tag-isle-of-man-media","tag-isle-of-man-news","tag-isle-of-man-online","tag-isle-of-man-radio","tag-isle-of-man-radio-advertising","tag-isle-of-man-radio-station","tag-isle-of-man-radio-stations","tag-isle-of-man-school-closures","tag-isle-of-man-television","tag-isle-of-man-tv","tag-isle-of-man-twitter","tag-isleofdeals","tag-isleofmandeals","tag-jason-quinn","tag-kevin-ford","tag-late-night-love-songs","tag-manx","tag-manx-radio","tag-manxradio","tag-matt-fletcher","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-more","tag-more-music-on-air-online-on-ipad-and-on-iphone","tag-moremusic","tag-morning-crew","tag-morning-crew-3fm-morning-crew","tag-music","tag-nj-williams","tag-radio-player","tag-radio3fm","tag-radioplayer","tag-radioplayer-co-uk","tag-ron-berry","tag-school-closures","tag-the-morning-crew","tag-three-fm","tag-threedotfm","tag-threefm","tag-tony-james","tag-tt","tag-tt-race","tag-tt-races","tag-uk","tag-ukradioplayer","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508647","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=508647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}