She described the vehicle as a “mini ambulance car” that is not marked, but still can use a blue light.<\/p>\n
After three months the use of the vehicle will be reviewed to see if the number of cars needs to be increased.<\/p>\n
The project is funded jointly by Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care Board and EEAS which also serves Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.<\/p>\n
The EEAS has introduced similar initiatives in Suffolk, external<\/a>, Norfolk , external<\/a>& Essex and Hertfordshire, external<\/a> in the last year.<\/p>\n Liz Ip Piang Siong, the ambulance service’s regional head of mental health, said she was “thrilled” to introduce a joint response vehicle.<\/p>\n She added: “Sadly during the winter months, we do typically see an increase in mental health-related 999 calls, so having this team on the road will allow us to provide the specialist support people need and avoid unnecessary journeys to hospital.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She described the vehicle as a “mini ambulance car” that is not marked, but still can use a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-347853","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\/347853","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=347853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}