{"id":324559,"date":"2025-12-01T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324559\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:52:07","slug":"mental-health-support-by-text-message-rolled-out-in-shropshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324559\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health support by text message rolled out in Shropshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service operates 24 hours a day without the need for an appointment or referral, and Ms Riley said it would appeal to people who preferred messaging to talking, or had hearing or speech impediments which made phone or in-person appointments difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Text responders can signpost users to other services like NHS 111, crisis teams and other community-based mental health support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Rachel Gallyot, interim chief medical officer for NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, added: &#8220;It complements our existing services and reflects our commitment to making mental health care more responsive, inclusive and tailored to individual needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shout is <a href=\"https:\/\/giveusashout.org\/about-us\/about-shout\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">run by the charity Mental Health Innovations, external<\/a>, and says it deals with about 2,000 conversations a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The service operates 24 hours a day without the need for an appointment or referral, and Ms Riley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-324559","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}