Health minister Ivan Lewis announced the 32 sites who will
begin to roll out talking therapies around the country.
Each of the 32 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) will receive a share of the
??33 million first instalment of new money announced for the purpose
by Health Secretary Alan Johnson on World Mental Health Day last year
(10 October).
The funds will help the NHS create a new workforce that can offer
properly supervised low intensity and high intensity therapy,
slashing waiting times for this kind of treatment and helping
patients achieve a level of recovery that they can clearly see and
which is in line with the evidence from clinical trials that has been
independently reviewed by the national Institute for health and
Clinical Excellence (NICE).
Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis said:
"This initiative will transform the way the NHS helps people with
depression and anxiety disorders. It will help to reduce the stigma
associated with mental health problems. I believe it is one of the
most important advances for NHS services in a generation."
Over the next three years, 3,600 extra therapists will be trained and
offer treatment to 900,000 people. In the first year, at least 700
therapists will be trained and see around 100,000 people.
Training places are expected to become available through the NHS Jobs
website www.jobs.nhs.uk from late Generic lasix pills no prescription June.
Notes
1. The country’s 10 strategic health authorities have each chosen
between two and five Primary Care Trusts to take this forward and a
number of higher education institutions to deliver the newly
developed national curricula for high- and low-intensity therapy
workers from the autumn.
More PCTs will join the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
programme as further money comes on stream in the next two years - a
total of ??103 million in 2009-10 and rising to ??173 million in
2010-11.
The programme began in 2006, with two pilot projects in Newham, East
London, and Doncaster, in Yorkshire, focused on working-age adults.
Between them, they saw 5,000 patients in a year and brought well over
half of them to measurable recovery with the number going to work
rising by 10 per cent.
In 2007, 11 PCTs began exploring the specific needs of one or more
vulnerable groups including children and young people, new mothers,
older people, black and ethnic minorities, offenders and people with
long term conditions or medically unexplained symptoms.
2. The successful PCTs chosen to take part in the first year are:
NHS North West
Eastern and Central Cheshire
Western Cheshire
Knowsley
Salford
East Lancashire
NHS South West
Bournemouth and Poole
Cornwall and the isles of Scilly
Dorset
Swindon
NHS East of England
Bedfordshire
Cambridgeshire
West Hertfordshire
NHS Yorks and Humber
North Lincolnshire
Leeds
East Riding
Sheffield
NHS East Midlands
Nottingham City
Lincolnshire
NHS London
Camden
City and Hackney
Ealing
NHS West Midlands
Dudley
Shropshire
Stoke
NHS South East Coast
East Sussex Downs and Weald
Hastings and Rother
Brighton and Hove City
West Kent (locality)
NHS South Central
Buckinghamshire (locality)
Berkshire West (locality)
NHS North East
South Tyneside
North Tyneside
Department of Health, UK
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