Delivering IAPT Services:

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• Delivering IAPT Services
• benefits and challenges
• New Horizons Listening Event
• 17 June 2009, Botanical Gardens, Birmingham
• Dr Felix Davies
• Director of Psychological Services

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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)

• National Programme started in 2006
• Aims
• Better health and wellbeing
• Help people stay employed, get into work, and
  improve their day-to-day
• More choice and better accessibility to effective
  evidence-based services
• High levels of satisfaction with the service
  received
• Major expansion in number of psychological
  therapists through increases in funding and
  training courses

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SSSHFTs IAPT services

• Shropshire
• Telford Wrekin
• North Staffordshire
• Liverpool
• Sefton

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Shropshire IAPT

• Large PCT area, with sparsely spread population
• Integrated employment project provided by Third
  Sector

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Telford Wrekin IAPT

• Rapidly increasing population
• 3 areas of focus
• Older people
• Black and minority ethnic groups
• Employment

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North Staffordshire IAPT

• 3-way partnership
• Statutory sector North Staffordshire Combined
  Healthcare Trust
• Third Sector Mental Health Matters
• Close links with Third Sector providers and user
  groups

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Challenges

• Speed of delivery
• Data burden
• High expectations
• Funding
• Demand and capacity modelling
• False expectations
• Breadth and depth of partners and integrated care
  pathways across organisations

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Benefits

• To service users
• Directly through treatment
• Indirectly via services/organisations working
  more efficiently and closely together to meet
  needs holistically
• Indirectly via raising profile of psychological
  therapy and all its applications, including for
  physical health problems, medically unexplained
  symptoms, offenders, people learning
  disabilities, etc
• To local health economy
• Psychological therapy associated with reduced
  need for medication, GP consultations, physical
  health interventions/admissions
• To society
• Improved family functioning
• Reduction in benefit payments
• Increase in tax receipts

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IAPT Institute

• Centre of excellence
• Sharing best practice across IAPT services
• Developing IAPT areas of expertise
• Training, supervision and consultation centre
• RD hub
• Economies of scale

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Contact

• Dr Felix Davies
• Director of Psychological Services
• 01785 221 427
• felix.davies_at_sssft.nhs.uk