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IAPTIAPT London Regional Recruitment ClosedTuesday, June 8th, 2010The IAPT London regional recruitment process closed on the 28th May. There was an overwhelming response to the process. Shortlisting is currently being undertaken and should be completed in the next week or two. Some London PCTs are recruiting locally for IAPT trainees so if you missed out on the regional process please keep an eye on NHS jobs over the coming weeks for further positions. May Edition of Talking Times ReleasedWednesday, May 26th, 2010Talking Times, Working for Wellness’s quarterly E Bulletin is now available to download. This edition covers the recent IAPT London recruitment drive, an innovative mental health and employment project and an IAPT launch. Click on the link below to download. Working for Wellness Launches London Regional IAPT Recruitment CampaignMonday, May 10th, 2010Working 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 establish 15 IAPT sites in London, recruiting nearly 400 trainees and treating nearly 15,000 people. National funding has helped create a new workforce able to deliver evidence based cognitive behavioral therapy to people with depression, anxiety and/or phobias. Hospital admissions ‘reduced by access to psychological therapies’Friday, May 7th, 2010Exclusive: The Government’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is not only reducing rates of depression and anxiety but also driving down hospital admissions for physical illness, new evidence suggests. NHS cuts threaten talking therapies for psychiatric patientsTuesday, April 20th, 2010Half a million people with serious mental illness could lose access to counselling and other services as the NHS struggles to make unprecedented efficiency savings, campaigners warn. Despite manifesto pledges from the three main political parties to increase access to “talking therapies” in the health service, Monitor, the independent regulator for NHS Foundation Trusts, has written to all the organisations that it oversees, asking them to plan for deeper cuts than previously forecast from next month. New service to tackle depression and anxietyFriday, February 12th, 2010A team of four new therapists have been brought in by local NHS provider Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Community Healthcare, to treat patients with low intensity mental health issues like depression and anxiety. IAPT video from Islington PCTFriday, February 5th, 2010Talking Times ReleasedFriday, January 29th, 2010All the latest news from the Working for Wellness Team is in the latest edition of Talking Times:
Jobless to be offered ‘talking treatment’ to help put Britain back to workMonday, December 7th, 2009Jobless 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 More IAPT sites added to services pageWednesday, December 2nd, 2009Sutton and Merton and Tower Hamlets have submitted their IAPT service details and details are now viewable on our services map. |
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