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Study Demonstrates Combining Digital Therapeutics for Insomnia and IAPT Therapy Improves Sleep, Anxiety, and Depression More Than Therapy Alone

The IAPT programme in England assesses approximately one million people each year and offers evidence-based psychological interventions, primarily for diagnoses of anxiety and depression. These ...
The Independent

The ‘Uberisation’ of mental health services is a threat to our wellbeing

There is a mental health crisis in England, with rates of depression doubling since the Covid pandemic began. Strategies of “speaking up”, mindfulness sessions at work, and national “happiness” ...
The Guardian

Can call centre therapy solve the NHS mental health crisis?

Fast-track treatment aims to ease growing problem in the UK, but critics say it is the clinical equivalent to online dating An NHS counsellor lets out a deep sigh as she puts the phone down. Her ...
Pulse

PCTs cutting mental health funding to deliver IAPT

PCTs are paying for the Government's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme by cutting other elements of mental health funding, a charity has warned. Since April, trusts have ...
Full Fact

Mental health: staff working in talking therapies

One estimate says at least 2,850 more people worked in IAPT services (a flagship talking therapy programme for those with anxiety and depression) from August 2012 to April 2015. This does not include ...
Health Service Journal

Have we improved access to mental health services?

Emma Stanton, Brain Wheelan and Thishi Surendranathan review the success of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, a flagship programme to get people into mental health treatment The Adult ...