{"id":336071,"date":"2025-12-08T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336071\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:23:07","slug":"north-yorkshire-nhs-service-becomes-first-to-offer-vr-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336071\/","title":{"rendered":"North Yorkshire NHS service becomes first to offer VR mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The uptake of the treatment had been &#8220;really great&#8221; so far, according to clinical lead Carla Webb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If we think about the rural demographic of North Yorkshire, it&#8217;s not easy for everybody to be able to come in to a healthcare setting,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patients visit the team in Northallerton at the start and the end of the course, with fortnightly telephone calls with a therapist in between.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The check-ins help to ensure that Tend VR is &#8220;right&#8221; for the patient, according to Ms Danahay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will always talk again if there&#8217;s anything more that we can do as a service to support the depression and anxiety,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Webb added: &#8220;We&#8217;re still in the early days, but actually what we are seeing is great recovery rates for patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The uptake of the treatment had been &#8220;really great&#8221; so far, according to clinical lead Carla Webb. &#8220;If&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[74,179,509,180],"class_list":["post-336071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336071","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=336071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}