More than 100,000
people will benefit from a new wave of talking therapy services
going live across the country from today, World Mental Health Day,
Care Services Minister Phil Hope has announced.
The 52 new sites will help people with depression and anxiety
disorders access NICE approved treatments including cognitive
behavioural therapies, counselling and guided self-help.
The 52 new sites going live between World Mental Health Day and
March 2010 join 35 sites launched in 2008 and a further 28 that
went live earlier this year. This is part of £103 million being
spent by the Department of Health on making a total of 115
services available by March next year.
Care Services Minister Phil Hope said:
“From World Mental Health Day, 52 new talking therapy services
will go live, helping thousands more people recover from
debilitating anxiety disorders.
“The talking therapy services that are already up and running
have been very successful, with 73,000 people entering treatment
and 1,500 more therapists being employed under the scheme. I look
forward to seeing the programme go from strength to strength in
the future.”
One in four people suffer from a mental health problem at any one
time and mental ill health costs the economy over £77 billion a
year, according to estimates. The Government is developing a new
strategy for mental health for the coming years called New
Horizons, currently out for consultation.
Care Services Minister Phil Hope continued:
“World Mental Health Day will raise awareness and help break down
the stigma that all too often surrounds mental health problems.
But I want to go a step further and prevent people developing
mental health problems in the first place.
“Our New Horizons strategy aims to create more mentally healthy
communities as well as continuing the improvements in services
we’ve seen in recent years. I want as many people as possible to
have their say on the best way to achieve this. “
The 52 new sites are Wakefield, Great Yarmouth & Waveney,
Peterborough, Derby City, Derby County, Leicester City, Leicester
County & Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottingham County,
Islington, Lambeth, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Greenwich,
Hammersmith & Fulham, Wandsworth, Sutton & Merton,
Westminster, Bolton, Liverpool, Stockport, Heywood, Middleton
& Rochdale, North Lancashire, Cumbria, Bury, Trafford,
Tameside & Glossop, Ashton, Wigan & Leigh, Surrey,
Southampton, Portsmouth, Devon, Gloucester, Plymouth, Somerset,
South Gloucester, Torbay Care Trust, Wiltshire, Birmingham East
& North, South Birmingham, Heart of Birmingham, Telford
& Wrekin, Coventry, Warwickshire, Solihull, Rotherham,
North Yorkshire & York, Hampshire, Gateshead,
Northumberland, Luton
Notes to Editors
For details of filming opportunities at talking therapy sites,
contact the Department of Health newsdesk on 0207 210 5221.
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is one
element of government action to help people with mental health
problems recover and get back into work.
So far, 73,000 people have entered treatment and 1,500 more
people have been employed in the Improving Access to Psychological
Therapies (IAPT) programme. The programme is on course to treat
900,000 in the first three years.
Each of the 80 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) receive a share of the
£103 million, allocated for year two of the programme(2009-10),
rising to £173 million in 2010-11, as announced by Health
Secretary Alan Johnson on World Mental Health Day 2007 (10
October).
In March 2009, the Department of Health and Department of Work
and Pensions announced and extra £13million to help speed up
access to talking therapies during the recession.
The programme began with two demonstration sites 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.
Sites and timings
2006 – two pilots in Newham and Doncaster
2008 – 35 first wave sites: Eastern and Central Cheshire, Western
Cheshire, Knowsley, Salford, East Lancashire, Bournemouth and
Poole, Cornwall and the isles of Scilly, Dorset, Swindon,
Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, West Hertfordshire, Suffolk, North
Lincolnshire, Leeds, East Riding, Sheffield, Nottingham City,
Lincolnshire, Camden, City and Hackney, Ealing, Southwark,
Haringey, Dudley, Shropshire, Stoke, East Sussex Downs and Weald,
Hastings and Rother, Brighton and Hove City, West Kent,
Buckinghamshire, Berkshire West, South Tyneside, North Tyneside.
April – July 2009 – 14 new sites: East & North
Hertfordshire, North East Essex, North Somerset, Bristol, Bath
& North East Somerset, Camden, West Sussex, Medway, East
& Coastal Kent, Oxfordshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire
East, Milton Keynes, Norfolk
September 2009 – 14 new sites: South East Essex, South West
Essex, Mid Essex, Hartlepool, Stockton, Middlesbrough, Redcar
& Cleveland, , Hull, Kirklees, Barnsley, Calderdale, North
East Lincolnshire, Doncaster, Bradford
October 2009 – 46 new sites: Wakefield, Great Yarmouth &
Waveney, Peterborough, Derby City, Derby County, Leicester City,
Leicester County & Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottingham
County, Islington, Lambeth, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham,
Greenwich, Hammersmith & Fulham, Wandsworth, Sutton
& Merton, Westminster, Bolton, Liverpool, Stockport,
Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale, North Lancashire, Cumbria,
Bury, Trafford, Tameside & Glossop, Ashton, Wigan
& Leigh, Surrey, Southampton, Portsmouth, Devon,
Gloucester, Plymouth, Somerset, South Gloucester, Torbay Care
Trust, Wiltshire, Birmingham East & North, South
Birmingham, Heart of Birmingham, Telford & Wrekin,
Coventry, Warwickshire, Solihull
January – March 2010 – 6 new sites: Rotherham, North Yorkshire
& York, Hampshire, Gateshead, Northumberland, Luton
Contacts:
Department of Health
Phone: 020 7210 5221
NDS.DH@coi.gsi.gov.uk