A 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.
IAPTNew service to tackle depression and anxietyFriday, February 12th, 2010IAPT 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. Speech by the Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Health, 26 November 2009, New Savoy Partnership Conference: Psychological therapies in the NHSTuesday, December 1st, 2009Speech 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. The context of NHS reform ‘Doctors should stop pushing drugs at depressed people’Thursday, November 26th, 2009Despite 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. Divorcing couples to be offered counselling on the NHSTuesday, November 24th, 2009The government is to announce that divorcing couples will be offered counselling on the National Health Service for the first time in an effort to tackle growing rates of depression. NHS will provide relationship counselling to depressed couplesTuesday, November 24th, 2009Couples will be offered counselling on the NHS if their relationship problems are causing depression, the health secretary has announced New Services Added to WfW MapFriday, November 20th, 2009Wave 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:
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