{"id":43144,"date":"2023-03-06T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=43144"},"modified":"2023-03-06T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:12:13","slug":"nhs-recruits-volunteers-to-phone-the-lonely-after-epidemic-of-isolation-post-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/06\/nhs-recruits-volunteers-to-phone-the-lonely-after-epidemic-of-isolation-post-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS recruits volunteers to phone the lonely after epidemic of isolation post-Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38982\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1-360x233.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">V<\/span>olunteers are being recruited by the NHS to phone those who are lonely, amid concern about\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2022\/12\/26\/devastating-cost-britains-loneliness-epidemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">increasingly isolated lives since the pandemic<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/nhs-recruits-volunteers-to-phone-the-lonely-after-epidemic-of-isolation-post-covid\/ar-AA18gkKH?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=b574ecebabbe46899b7d183071a37674&amp;ei=117\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Volunteers are being recruited by the NHS to phone those who are lonely, amid concern about\u00a0increasingly isolated lives since the pandemic. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/nhs-app.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43145,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144\/revisions\/43145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}