Psychological Therapies in the NHS


The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme seeks to deliver on the Government’s 2005 General Election manifesto commitment to provide improved access to psychological therapies for people who require the help of mental health services. It also responds to service user’s requests for more personalised services based around their individuals needs.
It will test the effectiveness of providing increases in evidence based psychological therapy services to people with ’common’ mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, in providing improvements in health, well-being and in maintaining people or returning people to employment and community participation.

The IAPT programme’s main aims are to:

Improve individual’s well-being, satisfaction and choice.

Improve access and support to maintain people in work and to help them to return to work.

Develop clinical protocols to ensure clinically effective treatments.

Develop service models for delivering integrated, stepped-care for people requiring access to psychological therapies across the spectrum of services

Reduce waiting lists for accessing psychological therapies.

All of this may sound look and sound ok but will the programme meet what for many clinicians is the most important criteria : A personalised service based on the individual needs of clients and their families.

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