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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)- Barnsley
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About the service
The IAPT programme is a large-scale national initiative that aims to significantly increase the availability of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommended psychological treatments for depression and anxiety disorders.
IAPT is planned and not offered in an acute crisis. It is not focussed on all mental health conditions and is focussed specifically on ‘common’ mental health conditions – find out about the conditions targeted in eligibility criteria section.
The community mental health nurse service is needs-led and targets people with the spectrum of anxiety and mood disorders with higher levels of distress whose needs cannot be met by improving access to psychological therapies service. The team does not use diagnostic indicators as eligibility criteria.
Workshops
The team is currently offering a range of free workshops to help boost mental health and wellbeing.
Why would someone choose the service?
- The service is easy to access you can ring the team and ask to speak to a duty worker
- The team provides a wide range of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved evidenced-based therapies to meet a whole range of needs
- You can be seen face to face, via telephone or in a group.
- The service offers clients an alternative choice of therapy should the first choice not help. Not all therapies suit every individual
- Clients are always offered the recommended treatment dose.
- The service can provide interpreters
- The service is open to veterans, older people, people with long-term physical health problems; we also have the Rainbow tick.
- We have a range of clinics available across the whole of Barnsley
Results from patient experience questionnaire
- 90% of clients satisfied or very satisfied with the type of treatment
- 91% of client satisfied or very satisfied with a specific therapist
- When a request for an alternative therapist is made the mental health access team will attempt to provide this
- 90% of clients felt fully involved with decision-making processes
- 95% of client satisfied or very satisfied with overall service.
Staff you may meet
- Administrative staff provide essential support to doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. This can be in a variety of different settings, with administrators working as a receptionist in a clinic or a clerk on a ward. They may also be working closely with a consultant as a medical secretary.
- The NHS employs a wide range of clinical staff, it wouldn’t be possible to list them all on this website! All our clinical staff are skilled, dedicated professionals who adhere to high standards of training and work-place practice.
- Receptionists are the first link for many patients and visitors. They often work on their own or with one or two other receptionists, greeting patients as they arrive and check them in. They might also collect patient notes and ensure that these vital records go to the right healthcare professional. In a clinic, they may make appointments and arrange patient transport.
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Why a professional should choose the service
- An innovative service who actively participates in research
- We provide an evidence-based and evidence-informed service
- Successful in helping people to recover and improve their quality of life
- Provide a wide range talking therapies to meet service user needs
- As an integrated NHS service there are robust pathways between primary and secondary care ensuring that service users don’t fall between services
- The high-intensity cognitive behavioural therapists are a stable and very experienced workforce providing NICE approved treatment doses
- This past year a waiting list initiative has reduced the waiting for high-intensity therapy by 50%
- The service accepts self-referral and there is always a duty worker available for advice and support during operating hours
- Last year team consistently achieved the into treatment and moving to recovery targets set by the commissioners
Results from patient experience questionnaire:
- 90% of clients satisfied or very satisfied with the type of treatment
- 91% of client satisfied or very satisfied with a specific therapist
- When a request for an alternative therapist is made the mental health access team attempt to provide this
- 90% of clients felt fully involved with decision-making processes
- 95% of client satisfied or very satisfied with overall service
Support offered
- Assessment of mental health needs
- Signposting to voluntary sector organisations and other services in order to meet people’s needs
- Psychoeducation group to manage stress (Stress Pac)
- Guided self-help
- cCBT – an online computer programme for depression
- Self-help books
- Pain management package
- Agoraphobia package
- Step 2 obsessive compulsive package
- Counselling for depression
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive behaviour groups for trauma, depression and anxiety and low mood.
- The IAPT service offer is provided in Barnsley College for students
- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Intensive Care Unit department has commissioned a cognitive behaviour therapist to provide trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy within the department for one day a week.
Outcomes
- The psychiatric morbidity survey states that within Barnsley 26,316 people will have depression. We aim to get 15% of this figure into talking therapies
- Of the people who enter treatment, we aim to get 50% of these people to move to recovery on the PHQ9 (Depression rating scale) and GAD7 (anxiety rating scale)
- Of the people whose scores don’t hit the recovery cut off, we aim to significantly reduce their scores by over 5 points, with the aim of helping them to understand and manage their anxiety and depression and improve their quality of life
- To support people to remain in work or to return to work / meaningful activity
- Aim for people to be happy with the service that they have received – this is measured by the standard IAPT patient experience questionnaire
Referrals accepted from:
A & E, Carers/family, CMHTs, Consultants, GPs, Health visitors, Hospital staff, Midwives, Other Trust services, Patients(self-referral), Single Point of Access team, Voluntary services
Referrals also accepted from:
We would also encourage clients to refer themselves.
Referral criteria:
Make a referral (external website)
The common mental health conditions to be targeted by IAPT are as follows:
- Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – simple presentation
- Depression
- Phobias
- Obsessional compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Body dysmorphic disorder (with mild functional impairment)
- Panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia)
- Social anxiety
- Health anxiety
Visit the www.barnsleyiapt.co.uk website to make a referral