{"id":308,"date":"2022-01-26T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/emergency-helplines\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:31:10","slug":"emergency-helplines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/emergency-helplines\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Helplines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NHS 24<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs24.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NHS 24<\/a>\u00a0is an online and out-of-hours phone service for Scotland providing access to health advice and information 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You should call if your regular NHS service is closed and you are too ill to wait until it re-opens, or you need health information or reassurance about what to do. Your call will be directed to a suitable health professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You can access urgent mental health services and crisis teams through NHS 24.&nbsp;<\/em><strong>Phone for free on: 111<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Need someone to talk to?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Samartitans<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Samaritans<\/a>&nbsp;offer free and confidential support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for anyone experiencing feelings of distress and despair.&nbsp;<em>You can talk to them about anything, whenever you need to, by calling:&nbsp;<\/em><strong>08457 90 90 90<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number above&nbsp;is the UK national line, and your call will be charged at the local rate for \u20180845\u2019 numbers. Alternatively, you can call your local branch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Borders<\/strong>: 01750 200000<br><strong>Falkirk and Central Scotland<\/strong>: 01384 622066<br><strong>Kirkcaldy &amp; District<\/strong>: 01592 654242<br><strong>Dunfermline<\/strong>: 01383 722222<br><strong>Edinburgh &amp; the Lothians<\/strong>: 01312 219999<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Breathing Space Scotland<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/breathingspace.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Breathing Space Scotland<\/a>&nbsp;is a free, confidential phone line service for anyone in need of someone to talk to. The phone line operates from Monday&nbsp;to Thursday: 6pm\u20132am, and Friday to Monday: 6pm\u20136am.&nbsp;<strong>Call: 0800 83 85 87<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS 24 NHS 24&nbsp;is an online and out-of-hours phone service for Scotland providing access to health advice and information 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You should call if your regular NHS service is closed and you are too ill to wait until it re-opens, or you need health information or reassurance about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"NHS 24 NHS 24&nbsp;is an online and out-of-hours phone service for Scotland providing access to health advice and information 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You should call if your regular NHS service is closed and you are too ill to wait until it re-opens, or you need health information or reassurance about","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}