{"id":380444,"date":"2018-10-10T23:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-prime-minister-appoints-suicide-prevention-minister\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T23:18:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:18:16","slug":"presstv-uk-prime-minister-appoints-suicide-prevention-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-prime-minister-appoints-suicide-prevention-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK prime minister appoints suicide prevention minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister Theresa May<\/strong> <strong>has, for the first time in the world, appointed a minister to prevent suicide as reports show more and more people are taking their lives in Britain over mental health problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May appointed Jackie Doyle-Price to the newly created post of mental health, inequalities and suicide prevention minister as representatives of 50 countries gathered in London Wednesday for a mental health summit. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>May also earmarked a budget of 1.8 million pounds ($2.4 million) to help the Samaritans&#8217; helpline, a confidential 24\/7 freephone service, expand its consultation services to people grappling with mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can end the stigma that has forced too many to suffer in silence. We can prevent the tragedy of suicide taking too many lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Doyle-Price, a conservative member of the British parliament, is supposed to work with experts in suicide and self-harm prevention, charities, clinicians and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/10\/576617\/UK-mental-health-suicide-minister-appointment\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister Theresa May has, for the first time in the world, appointed a minister to prevent suicide as reports show more and more people are taking their lives in Britain over mental health problems. May appointed Jackie Doyle-Price to the newly created post of mental health, inequalities and suicide prevention minister as representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}