This statistical release makes available the most recent Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) monthly and quarterly data, including activity, waiting times, and outcomes such as recovery.
IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with depression or anxiety.
This statistical release makes available the most recent Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) monthly and quarterly data, including activity, waiting times, and outcomes such as recovery. It also makes available, for the first time, additional experimental statistics about a pilot programme for integrated IAPT services.
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This statistical release makes available the most recent Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) monthly and quarterly data, including activity, waiting times, and outcomes such as recovery.
IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with depression or anxiety.
This statistical release makes available the most recent Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) monthly and quarterly data, including activity, waiting times, and outcomes such as recovery. It also makes available, for the first time, additional experimental statistics about a pilot programme for integrated IAPT services.
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Health chiefs have drawn up new guidance to encourage doctors to place mental health therapists in practice surgeries – bringing more mental and physical health services under one roof.
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Up to 30 GP surgeries in the county will benefit from a pilot scheme which helps people suffering from diabetes to manage and improve their mental health.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) is offering talking therapies to selected patients who are identified as requiring support to control their diabetes.
Since 2016, the NHS has begun testing new services which integrate mental and physical treatments, as part of its Improving Access to Talking Therapies programme. People with long-term health issues like diabetes, heart problems or respiratory illness are now routinely given a ‘whole-person assessment’, focusing on what additional mental health care they may need to manage their condition.
rom April 2018 all CCGs are expected to expand Improving Access to Psychological Therapies by commissioning (IAPT) services integrated into physical healthcare pathways. This document supports this expansion by setting out the treatment pathway that underpins the access and waiting time standards, which all services should seek to measure themselves against.
Internationally, the clinical outcomes of routine mental health services are rarely recorded or reported; however, an exception is the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service, which delivers psychological therapies recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for depression and anxiety disorders to more than 537 000 patients in the UK each year. A session-by-session outcome monitoring system ensures that IAPT obtains symptom scores before and after treatment for 98% of patients. Service outcomes can then be reported, along with contextual information, on public websites. . Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Comment. Most people with mental illness worldwide receive no treatment at all.1 The number benefiting from effective treatment is even fewer—eg, as low as one in six people with major depression receive effective care in high-income countries, and one in 27 people in low-income or middle-income countries.2 For mild-to-moderate depression, the treatments of choice are psychological therapies.3 ; 4 Are there any examples of a health-care system successfully scaling up evidence-based practice for such common mental disorders? Yes: evidence is emerging that the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme in England fits this bill as reported by David M Clark and colleagues in The Lancet. 5 . Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
An innovative CPFT service to support the mental health of women with gynaecological cancers at CUH Addenbrooke’s and Peterborough City Hospitals and funded by Macmillan has been launched today.
The comprehensive psychological service, one of the first of its kind in the country, includes group and 1:1 therapies, and direct access to specialist psychology and psychiatry support for those with more complex or severe mental health difficulties.
It has been developed by experts from CPFT’s Psychological Medicine Service, which provides psychiatric care to those in acute hospitals, and the gynaecological oncology department at Addenbrooke’s, part of Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH).
The new integrated service is to benefit people with low level mental health needs such as mild to moderate depression and anxiety disorders (panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalised anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder) in the context of Diabetes and respiratory conditions (COPD and Asthma).
Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is holding nine workshops around the county to find out what is important to people who have experienced psychological therapies in the community.
We want to make sure that the service is available to all, brings real benefits and is able to meet the demands of those who need it.
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Based on the Bio-Psycho- Social model the Wellbeing Service in Norfolk and Waveney offers a number of social interventions provided by the Local Associate Coordinators (LACs), Peer Support Workers (PSWs) and Ambassadors (volunteers) alongside the IAPT interventions.
Anyone joining the service is able to access the social activities.
People can pick and choose their level of involvement through their time within the service and can access the activities following their discharge.
The Islington IAPT Service, named ‘iCope’ by service users, is dedicated to the provision of high quality Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other NICE guideline adherent psychological approaches to the treatment of anxiety and depression for adults living in or with a GP in the London Borough of Islington.
The Trust has been shortlisted in recognition of a project that aims to meets the unmet health needs of patients with medially unexplained symptoms. The project led by Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Frank Röhricht and Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Nina Papadopoulos developed a holistic care pathway in GP Surgeries for patients with MUS. This including the identification, assessment, engagement and group Interventions using Mindfulness Stress Reduction (MBSR) and an innovative Body Oriented Psychological therapy (BOPT). Patients who participated in the project gained significant improvements in symptom levels and subsequent reduction in health care utilisation.
NHS Improvement and NHS England have published detailed guidance on the new outcomes based payment approach for IAPT services. This follows NHS Improvement’s publication of the 2017/19 National Tariff Payment System (2017/19 NTPS). Within this, rule 8 mandates the use of an outcomes-based payment model for IAPT services from 1 April 2018.
The emergence of evidence-based psychological treatments (EVPTs) is a scientific success story, but unfortunately the application of these empirically supported procedures has been slow to gain ground in treatment-as-usual settings. This Open Forum commentary argues that direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing, which has worked well in communicating the advantages of various medicines, should perhaps be considered for use in social marketing of EVPTs. DTC marketing of pharmaceuticals is a long-standing advertising strategy in the United States. In fact, DTC marketing of psychotropic medicines is quite a success story. The authors recommend various strategies for using marketing science to devise DTC advertising of EVPTs, discuss previous research on DTC campaigns, and describe initiatives launched in the United Kingdom and Europe to promote EVPTs. Suggestions for evaluating and regulating DTC marketing of EVPTs are included. Finally, the potential for DTC marketing of EVPTs to increase mental health literacy and reduce health disparities is explored. Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
A psychological treatment programme offered to teens in Milton Keynes with complex and challenging mental health problems over the past year is showing early signs of success, say CNWL doctors.
An initial analysis of figures for the treatment – Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) – show an improvement in the mental health of the young people who have successfully completed the full six-month programme, including a reduction in the rates of self-harm.
The tool allows patients to create digital diaries to help them spot and unpick patterns in their lives, session planning tools to allow them to take control of the agenda and goals which can be sent at timely intervals to motivate them to make positive change.Used in 12 trusts to date Buddy has supported thousands of patients while significantly improving both attendance and recovery rates. Although originally designed for IAPT Buddy has spread rapidly and is now embedded in range of services with users aged between 9 and 72.
In June 2015 we were commissioned by NHS Blackpool CCG to support Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in improving their IAPT service, which was falling short of its targets.
People experiencing low mood in Durham and Teesside could benefit from a pilot study seeing community pharmacies deliver psychological support.
David Ekers, TEWV nurse consultant, has secured nearly £500,000 of funding from the National Institute for Health Research to evaluate the effectiveness of training pharmacy staff to deliver psychological therapies to people living with long-term physical health conditions and low mood.
The Community pHarmaciEs Mood Intervention STudy (CHEMIST) plans to recruit 130 research participants for a randomised controlled trial. The trial will test the impact of pharmacy delivered interventions, compared to usual care delivered by mental health specialists.
NHS England is supporting 22 Early Implementer projects across the country to lead the way in integrating psychological therapies with physical health care. Calderdale and Kirklees are 2 of the areas.
The new service will have a wide presence across Wandsworth providing face-to-face counselling in a range of venues as part of this service. They have partnered with The Awareness Centre, one of the leading providers of counselling and psychotherapy in London, who works directly with a wide range of groups to offer tailor-made services.
To make sure the service is accessible as possible Talk Wandsworth will deliver the latest innovative online therapy options including SilverCloud, Ieso and Skype. This 24/7 technology will make it easier for people to choose what type of support they want, when they want it and how they would like this to take place.
The IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) service offers a range of psychological therapies for people, including older adults, who are suffering from low mood, stress and anxiety. The Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull IAPT service has recently produced a poster to promote the fact that free NHS psychological treatments are available to older people in the Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull area.
A pioneering shop in Doncaster town centre which provides drop-in advice and support for people experiencing issues with their mental health has been praised as best practice within the NHS.
The Talking Shop at 63 Hall Gate, which is run by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH), provides access to psychological therapies for common problems such as depression, panic and phobias, as well as free information and advice. It was recently named as the best practice example of how regions are helping to provide high street access to therapy without stigma by NHS England.
Staff from different cultural backgrounds recognised that a combination of stigma, language barriers and other factors meant that fewer people from these communities sought help for depression, anxiety, anger issues or stress.
In order to raise awareness of these issues, staff developed a play called 'mein pagal nein huhn' which means ‘I am not mad’ in Urdu.
Associations between deprivation and mental health have long been known. This commentary discusses recent work examining this in relation to the uptake, delivery and outcomes of psychological therapies in England. These associations are complex but it is clear that implementation of evidence-based interventions should consider area-level characteristics. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Since 2008, the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has disseminated evidence-based interventions for depression and anxiety problems. In order to maintain quality standards, government policy in England sets the expectation that 50% of treated patients should meet recovery criteria according to validated patient-reported outcome measures. Using national IAPT data, we found evidence suggesting that the prevalence of mental health problems is greater in poorer areas and that these areas had lower average recovery rates. After adjusting benchmarks for local index of multiple deprivation, we found significant differences between unadjusted (72.5%) and adjusted (43.1%) proportions of underperforming clinical commissioning group areas. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
A new website for people suffering with depression and anxiety has been launched in Lincolnshire.
steps2change talking therapies is a service run by Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Their new website includes information about free help available locally from the NHS for anyone suffering with common mental health problems.
An online psychological family therapy service, which is proven to reduce anxiety levels by 29 per cent and depression levels by 35 per cent is being trialled throughout Lincolnshire by LPFT.
The project, in collaboration with Healios has come about thanks to funding and support from the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN).
Official statistics published today show a strong link between deprivation and the likelihood of recovering from anxiety and depression.
The report, Psychological Therapies: Annual Report on the use of IAPT services, 2015-16, published by NHS Digital, examines activity, waiting times and outcomes for the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme run by the NHS in England.
Within an existing Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT) service there was provision of psycho-educational groups for ethnic minority groups whose language and illiteracy skills prevented people from engaging in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
A South Asian Women’s workshop has therefore been developed within an IAPT service in Primary Care
Our Trust has been shortlisted in the ‘Diversity and Equality in Service Delivery’ category of the 2016 Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards for our work on a project that has been designed to enable local people with a learning disability to access mainstream NHS psychological therapies more easily.
The project, which is still ongoing, aims to increase the number of people with learning disabilities accessing - and completing - a course of the Trust’s mainstream psychological therapy services for mild to moderate mental health illnesses such as depression and anxiety. To do this, staff training around working with people with learning disabilities has been delivered and materials have been redesigned to better suit the needs of people with learning disabilities.
A pioneering shop in Doncaster town centre which provides drop-in advice and support for people experiencing issues with their mental health has been praised as best practice within the NHS.
The Talking Shop at 63 Hall Gate, which is run by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH), provides access to psychological therapies for common problems such as depression, panic and phobias, as well as free information and advice. It was recently named as the best practice example of how regions are helping to provide high street access to therapy without stigma by NHS England.
The Suffolk Primary Care Mental Health Service, otherwise known as Wellbeing Suffolk, will provide a range of holistic, tailored services for both children and adults to support their emotional wellbeing.
With extended opening hours from 8am to 8pm during the week, Wellbeing Suffolk will offer people accessible, responsive help before their problems become too great. The new-look service will also provide talking therapies for those with a wider range of mental health problems, so that they can get the support they need within the community, in turn avoiding a referral into specialist services.
NSFT will work with a wide variety of community and third sector organisations to deliver the service, including Suffolk Family Carers, Relate and 4YP, who will provide interventions to boost wellbeing, such as support for carers.