{"id":72409,"date":"2025-02-21T08:50:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T08:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72409"},"modified":"2025-02-21T08:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T08:50:42","slug":"comedy-trialled-as-treatment-option-to-reduce-nhs-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/21\/comedy-trialled-as-treatment-option-to-reduce-nhs-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy trialled as treatment option to reduce NHS costs"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1seatC.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"One in five adults in the UK is on antidepressants, Dr Opher says (Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Comedy is being trialled as a potential treatment for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mental-health\" 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}\">mental health<\/a> issues in a groundbreaking new scheme. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/comedy-trialled-as-treatment-option-to-reduce-nhs-costs\/ar-AA1zoN2O?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=e4795df04f6141b7b7fcc02628321696&amp;ei=28\">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>Comedy is being trialled as a potential treatment for\u00a0mental health issues in a groundbreaking new scheme. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72409","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\/01\/anti-depressants2.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72409","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=72409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72410,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72409\/revisions\/72410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}