{"id":572504,"date":"2026-04-08T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572504\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:56:08","slug":"shropshire-new-childrens-mental-health-service-to-tackle-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572504\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire new children&#8217;s mental health service to tackle delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new NHS-led mental health programme for children and teenagers in Shropshire has launched, hoping to tackle long wait times in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The child and adolescent services will be delivered by the Midlands Partnership University NHS Trust (MPFT), replacing and expanding on its current BeeU service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new service model, which has launched as a three year programme, will be prioritising easier access, earlier support and more joined-up care over the next three years to ensure the right help is available at the right time, the council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cathy Riley, Managing Director of MPFT&#8217;s said she understood if some families had felt &#8220;frustrated&#8221; with delays in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new NHS-led mental health programme for children and teenagers in Shropshire has launched, hoping to tackle long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-572504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572504","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=572504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}