The IAPT (Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies) programme aims to implement NICE-recommended psychological therapies for anxiety and depression on a national scale in England. It uses a stepped care model to provide the least intrusive but most effective treatment first. Services offer a range of evidence-based interventions including CBT, guided self-help, groups, computer-assisted therapy, and more intensive treatments. Challenges for the future include further integration with primary care, links to long-term conditions and employment support, and ensuring coherent services across commissioning bodies in the changing NHS landscape.
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Iapt stepped care
1. STEPPED CARE MODEL
Matt Broadway-Horner
Programme lecturer in the mental health and social sciences faculty
4. Aims
•Greater understanding of the IAPT programme and what
it is trying to achieve
•How the programme has been rolled out, specific
challenges for London and further work to be done by
2014
•Where IAPT might sit in the new commissioning
landscape
•How IAPT can fit in to wider primary care strategies
including further engagement with primary care
•What IAPT can offer local authorities and Health and
5. What is IAPT?
•National programme - implement NICE recommended psychological therapies for
anxiety and depression.
•First phase (2008-2010) - £400,000,000 to train 3600 new therapists to treat a total
of 900,000 people
•Second phase (2011-2014) - £400,000,000 to train 2400 new therapists, treating
1,000,000 people a year(15% need).
•Outcome monitoring - sessional measures - key indicators access, recovery, moving
off sick pay/ benefits
•Population approach - assessing need and developing services and a workforce with
the relevant competencies to meet that need.
•Increase capacity - specific curricula developed for extensive training programme to
train a new workforce - LI and HI staff
•A ‘full’ service consists of around 40 clinicians for a population of 250,000.
6. ‘It was the practical work that
made me realise I can do the
things I feared and without
doing them with the therapist I
don't think I’d have made nearly
as much progress’
7. The IAPT Argument (Depression Report 2006)
• Mental Health service provision often focuses on psychosis which deserves
attention but affects 1% of population at any one time.
• Many more people suffer from anxiety and depression (approx.15% at any one time
- 6 million people in England).
• Economic cost is huge (lost output £17 billion pa, of which £9 billion is a direct cost
to the Exchequer).
• Effective psychological treatments exist. NICE Guidance recommends CBT for
depression and all anxiety disorders plus some other treatments for individual
conditions (EMDR for PTSD, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Couples therapy,
Counseling & Brief Dynamic Therapy for some levels of depression).
• Less than 5% of people with anxiety disorders or depression receive an evidence
based psychological treatment. Patients show a 2:1 preference for psychological
therapies versus medication
• Increased provision largely pay’s for itself
8. Key Features of IAPT services
•Stepped care - least intrusive, most effective treatment is offered first
•Range of evidence-based interventions
•Easy access - self referrals
•Target under-represented groups –multi lingual, older people
•Links to employment support
•Integrated with primary care
•Integration with other parts of mental health system
11. The IAPT Programme in London
The IAPT programme in London has been one of graduated rollout and focussed on areas of highest
deprivation first - this means that most of inner London has good coverage - outer London generally has
less capacity and is less well resourced. Despite having an IAPT service in every PCT only about 60%
geographical/population coverage.
12. The IAPT Programme in London
•Services vary hugely in size with a large number unable to meet the needs of the local populations due
to limited capacity and investment. The ability to meet need ranges from 0.23% to 11.42% and London as
a whole is meeting 6.5% need.
•London currently has a workforce of around 1000 psychological therapists with well over half of these
being trained and funded directly by the programme. The majority of this workforce is concentrated in
central London.
13. Challenges and Opportunities
•Developing role in LTCs
•Increased risk of MH problems / impact on physical health outcomes
•Link to developing LTC pathways
•Training for staff - balance between specialist skills and generic skills
•Developing work with primary care teams
•MUS – joint management
•Collaborative care models – depression and LTCs/ MUS
•Balance between close working with PC and efficient, centralised models
•Balance between GP preference for more inclusive service and maximising
recovery rates.
•Developing public health approach
•Prevention/ mental health promotion
•Targeting specific groups to improve access
•Links with physical health programmes
•Links with social care/LAs
•Impact of welfare reforms
•Employment – best way of providing this support
•Children’s centres/ housing
14. Challenges and Opportunities
•Make it local - integration with existing mental services
•Ensuring coherent services with multiple providers
•Who will be key players in decisions about commissioning IAPT
services?
•CCGs
•HWBs
•Public Health
•Commissioning Board
15. • Activity scheduling
– Increasing pleasure and achievement
• Thought challenging
– Identifying and challenging negative automatic thoughts
• Problem solving
– Exploring and breaking down problems into manageable tasks
• Via 1:1, telephone, groups and computer
• Computer Aided CBT
– Beating the Blues
– Fear Fighter
CBT Interventions at Step 2
16. • Based on modified CBT framework
• Same principles as many of the self-help books but
support and encouragement of trained worker
• Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre Self help manuals
• Maximum of 6 sessions, each 40-50mins
• Delivered in community settings; GP surgeries,
libraries and Children Centres
Step 2 Guided Self Help
17. • Step 2
– Depression and Anxiety group
– Introduction to CBT Skills
– Turkish Access
– Assertiveness
– Stress group
– Turkish stress group
– Post Natal Adjustment
– Employment
– Fear Fighter Group
• Step 3
– Mindfulness CBT group
– Social Anxiety group
– Worry group
– Trauma Recovery
– Trauma Recovery Turkish
Speaking
Groups
18. You can find further
information about the
IAPT programme at:
www.iapt.nhs.uk