Psychological therapies in primary care
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Kmietowicz Z. Increasing access to psychological therapies will cost NHS nothing, says report. BMJ 2012; 344: e4250 Available at: http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e4250&nbs
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Psychological therapies in primary care
posted at 23/6/2012 2:25 PM BST
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Kmietowicz Z. Increasing access to psychological therapies will cost NHS nothing, says report. BMJ 2012; 344:e4250Available at: http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e4250 I wondered if any of you had seen this news article, or the report it is based on and what you thought about it? (Mental Health Policy Group of the Centre for Economic Performance. How mental health loses out in the NHS. June 2012.http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/research/mentalhealth/default.asp.) The report suggests that nearly half of all ill health among people under 65 is due to mental illness, yet only a quarter of them get treatment. It discusses the availability of IAPT (a UK model for providing psychological therapies, largely CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, in primary care). I know locally our IAPT service is great, but has a 3 month waiting list, which is hugely frustrating for me. The idea is that with IAPT available, we in secondary mental health care won't see people with common, mild to moderate mental disorders like depression and anxiety, milder forms of OCD, milder forms of bulimia nervosa etc. Of course we still get referrals of patients with conditions like this from GPs but I then have to refer them on to IAPT knowing they will have to wait 3 months for treatment...not terribly good for patients. I don't think IAPT is the answer to everything, but I do applaud any move to improve their waiting times.
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