{"id":79496,"date":"2025-05-06T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/79496\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:38:15","slug":"more-than-5700-waiting-in-ni-for-first-mental-health-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/79496\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 5,700 waiting in NI for first mental health appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">True figure may be much higher with trusts updating records excluded\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hundreds of children and more than 5,000 adults across Northern Ireland are currently waiting for their first mental health appointment, according to data provided by the Department of Health.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9e9bd6f7-6515-4c83-a6fb-9bbf5e57b428.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Hundreds of children and more than 5,000 adults across Northern Ireland are currently waiting for their first mental health appointment, according to data provided by the Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At least 500 children and more than 5,200 adults across Northern Ireland are on waiting lists for their first mental health appointment, Department of Health data has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, the numbers could be much higher, as they don\u2019t include figures for health trusts updating their digital medical records systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"True figure may be much higher with trusts updating records excluded Hundreds of children and more than 5,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[34912,105,17037,1249,218,11528,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-79496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-trusts","11":"tag-kurtis-reid","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-sinn-fein","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114461639127045334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}