{"id":20445,"date":"2018-03-14T16:57:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=20445"},"modified":"2018-03-14T16:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:57:01","slug":"crisis-fears-for-mental-health-patients-after-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/crisis-fears-for-mental-health-patients-after-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Crisis&#8217; fears for mental health patients after delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Delays in treating mental health patients could leave them in &#8220;crisis&#8221;, a charity has warned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mind Cymru raised concerns after figures revealed targets had been missed by\u00a0Cardiff and the Vale Health Board.<\/p>\n<p>Patients referred for treatment should be assessed within 28 days, but one in 10 waited longer.<\/p>\n<p>The health board was unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 3,000 people were referred to mental health services in Cardiff between October and December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh Government data showed\u00a0one in 10 of these had not been assessed after one month.<\/p>\n<p>It also revealed one in 10 of those receiving mental health treatment did not have a structured plan to meet their needs, which every patient should have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very disappointing,&#8221; said Lucy Lloyd of Mind Cymru.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that a delay in being assessed and being referred can escalate people&#8217;s mental health, which can increase their symptoms and even lead them into crisis, which is a really terrible experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delays in treating mental health patients could leave them in &#8220;crisis&#8221;, a charity has warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[26,183,1173,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20445"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20616,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445\/revisions\/20616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}