{"id":49221,"date":"2026-08-10T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/?p=49221"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:55:40","slug":"new-mental-health-emergency-department-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/news\/new-mental-health-emergency-department-in-bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mental Health Emergency Department in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"assembler_default-group assembler_module_group assembler_default-group_1 assembler_module_group_1\"><div class=\"assembler_module_area assembler_module_area_1\"><div class=\"assembler_text-module assembler_module assembler_text-module_1 assembler_module_1  transparent\"><a tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Seksioni me titull module-1\" id=\"module-1\" href=\"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221\/#module-1\" class=\"anchor\"><span class=\"hidden\">Seksioni me titull module-1<\/span><\/a><!-- Template found for text-module - Template: template-text - Matched: _only --><section class=\"w-full mx-auto max-w-content pt-12 sm:pt-24 pb-12 sm:pb-24\">\r\n  <div class=\"entry-content w-full !px-0 max-w-small\">\r\n        <h1><strong>New Mental Health Emergency Department in Bristol<\/strong><\/h1>\n<time class=\"post_date_shortcode\">10 Gusht 2026<\/time>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Plans have been confirmed for a new dedicated Mental Health Emergency Department at Callington Road Hospital in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>The new department will be developed by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, working with Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board.<\/p>\n<p>It follows the<a href=\"https:\/\/gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fnews%2Fmajor-expansion-of-community-mental-health-support-across-england&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cwill.bradbury%40nhs.net%7Cec5bc19162e84e901f5708def6d68ddf%7C37c354b285b047f5b22207b48d774ee3%7C0%7C0%7C639219598515230806%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ZhXIAQyG0YJ5ZX0lPeSPzZTYkrX9jcPONcB303CCpV8%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"noopener\"> national announcement on the expansion of mental health support<\/a> across England, which plans for 59 specialist emergency departments as well as 100 new community mental health centres across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Mental Health Emergency Department has a planned completion date of September 2027 and will serve local people by providing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast, same\u2011day specialist support for people experiencing a mental health crisis.<\/li>\n<li>An alternative to Emergency Departments for mental health presentations not requiring urgent physical health care, reducing unnecessary hospital attendances, and improving patient experience.<\/li>\n<li>A calm, therapeutic, safe and thoughtfully designed environment, including outdoor space, to support those in distress located with existing mental health services.<\/li>\n<li>Rapid assessment and onward care, ensuring people are connected quickly to the right support &#8211; whether that\u2019s inpatient treatment, home\u2011based care, or community services.<\/li>\n<li>Closer working with ambulance, police and other partners, reducing pressure on busy emergency departments and improving patient experience.<\/li>\n<li>A major step forward in ensuring people get the right care in the right place, as early as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The development builds on work already underway locally to strengthen mental health crisis support, improve access to care and help people receive support earlier and closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>It represents a major step forward in how local people are supported in crisis and will provide a calmer, safer and more therapeutic environment, ensuring people receive the right care in the right place as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>By redesigning the way urgent mental health support is delivered, health and care partners can improve people\u2019s experience at their most vulnerable moments and strengthening the immediate help available to them.<\/p>\n<p>Further details on timelines, operational arrangements and engagement opportunities will be shared as the programme develops.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\r\n  <\/section><\/div><!-- .assembler_text-module.assembler_module.assembler_text-module_1.assembler_module_1..transparent --><\/div><!-- .assembler_module_area.assembler_module_area_1 --><\/div><!-- .assembler_default-group.assembler_module_group.assembler_default-group_1.assembler_module_group_1  -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans have been confirmed for a new dedicated Mental Health Emergency Department at Callington Road Hospital in Bristol.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[66,1211,99,96],"class_list":["post-49221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health-services","tag-bristol","tag-callington-road-hospital","tag-crisis","tag-mental-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49223,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221\/revisions\/49223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}