{"id":128,"date":"2026-09-16T13:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:08:50","slug":"crisis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nhsuk-care-card nhsuk-care-card--urgent\">\n                <div class=\"nhsuk-care-card__heading-container\">\n                    <h3 class=\"nhsuk-care-card__heading\"><span role=\"text\"><span class=\"nhsuk-u-visually-hidden\">Non-urgent advice: <\/span>Emergency support<\/span><\/h3>\n                    <span class=\"nhsuk-care-card__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"nhsuk-care-card__content\">\n<p>If you or someone else is in danger, or if you feel that life is not worth living, call\u00a0<a href=\"tel:999\">999<\/a>\u00a0or go to your local\u00a0A&amp;E\u00a0department at your local hospital now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<h2>Other support<\/h2>\n<p><strong>If you need urgent help for your mental health, but it\u2019s not an emergency:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contact your GP for an emergency appointment<\/li>\n<li>Call the NHS on 111, Option 2 for mental health support<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/service_description\/buckinghamshire-safe-haven\/#heading-0\">Safe Haven \u2014 Buckinghamshire<\/a>\u00a0(local support for people experiencing a mental health crisis open 365 days per year. Not a clinical service, but offers listening and advice)\u00a001865 903037<\/li>\n<li><strong>ChatHealth:<\/strong>\u00a024\/7 text message mental health support in Buckinghamshire, run by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, providing immediate access to advice and support for anyone experiencing mental health challenges, including anxiety, stress, low mood, loneliness, relationship difficulties, self-harm or suicidal thoughts. The service aims to respond within one hour and is available every day of the year.\u00a0Text \u2018ChatHealth\u2019 to 07312 263 127<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/branches\/amersham\/\">Chiltern Samaritans:<\/a> A free and anonymous helpline that you can call to speak to trained volunteers\u00a0(phone: 116 123)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papyrus-uk.org\/\">Papyrus\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/papyrus-uk.org\/\">Hopeline<\/a>: for ages 35 and under \u2013 Phone: 0800 068 4141 (9am-10pm), Text: 07786209697, or email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:pat@papyrus-uk.org\">pat@papyrus-uk.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sane.org.uk\/how-we-help\/emotional-support\/saneline-services\">Saneline<\/a>: 0300 304 7000. Open from 4pm-10pm daily, 365 days a year<\/li>\n<li>LGBTQ+ helpline:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/switchboard.lgbt\/\">switchboard.lgbt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other support If you need urgent help for your mental health, but it\u2019s not an emergency: Contact your GP for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-128","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/beep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}