Working for Wellness (WfW) is the London regional implementation team for the national Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (IAPT). WfW is hosted by Commissioning Support for London (CSL) who support Commissioners to deliver the Healthcare for London strategy. This is the third year of the programme and to date WfW have helped to successfully [...]
Meditation on prescription: charity urges new remedy for depression
Meditation techniques should be widely available on prescription, say experts today, pointing to evidence that emptying the mind is more likely to help people out of the cycle of recurrent depression than pills. Meditation may for some evoke images of Buddhist chanting and the Beatles bedecked with flowers in their period of devotion to the [...]
Mental distress, CBT and employment
The plans, which will make mental health treatment and particularly cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) central to the fight to get Britain back to work after the recession, will eventually see centres providing CBT set up around the country. Read the full article here
Jobless to be offered ‘talking treatment’ to help put Britain back to work
Jobless Britons are to be offered therapy to help them get back into work, under a “talking treatment” programme to be announced by the government over the next few weeks Read the full article here
Speech by the Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Health, 26 November 2009, New Savoy Partnership Conference: Psychological therapies in the NHS
Speech to the New Savoy Partnership 26 November 2009 It’s a pleasure to join you at a conference renowned for breaking new ground in mental health policy. Whether I manage to live up to this tradition, I’ll leave you to judge. Read the full speech here The context of NHS reform
‘Doctors should stop pushing drugs at depressed people’
Despite a large increase in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) doctors are still pushing drugs at patients, according to Dr Jennifer Wild, a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry. In this week’s Scrubbing Up, she argues that GPs need to understand that psychological therapies like CBT work and should choose to offer them. Read the [...]
NHS will provide relationship counselling to depressed couples
Couples will be offered counselling on the NHS if their relationship problems are causing depression, the health secretary has announced Read the full article here
New Services Added to WfW Map
Wave 2 Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) sites went live last month in London and as they establish themselves they are sending us information about their services so we can update the services map. To date 15 PCTs have IAPT services, these are: Camden City and Hackney Ealing Greenwich Haringey Hammersmith and Fulham Islington [...]
Instant messaging can help depression
An article about computerised CBT (cCBT). It also includes some useful general links about depression That pop-up message window may be an irritant to many of us, but new research shows it can be used as an aid to getting over depression. Researchers have found that online talking treatment using instant messaging can help [...]
