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Improving Access to Psychological Therapy: Initial Evaluation of the Two Demonstration Sites

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David M. Clark
Richard Layard
Rachel Smithies

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The Government's Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) programme aims toimplement NICE Guidance for people with depression and anxiety disorders. In the firstphase of the programme, two demonstration sites were established in Doncaster and Newhamwith funding to provide increased availability of cognitive-behaviour therapy-based (CBT)services to those in the community who need them. The services opened in late summer2006. This paper documents the achievements of the sites up to September 2007 (roughlytheir first year of operation) and makes recommendations for the future roll out of IAPTservices.

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Paper provided by Centre for Economic Performance, LSE in its series CEP Discussion Papers with number dp0897.

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Keywords: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; CBT; Psychological therapy; Evaluation; Cost benefit analysis; IAPT;

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