Commissioners are important local leaders in the NHS, specifying how psychological therapies and other services should be delivered and promoting health and wellbeing through strong partnerships with professionals, local government, employment services, people who use services and those who support them.
The IAPT programme gives commissioners a good opportunity to collaborate with providers from all sectors and find genuinely innovative ways of meeting local people's common mental health needs and the routine collection of outcomes data ensures they can demonstrate progress quickly and clearly.
Commissioning Talking Therapies for 2011/12
This note supports Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in commissioning services to meet the needs of local people who are experiencing the common mental health problems of depression and anxiety disorders.
Specifically, it supports commissioners in developing local business cases for 2011/12 that generate efficiency and cash savings of £600 to £1,500 for each patient who recovers as a result of their talking therapy treatment.
There is strong evidence that appropriate and inclusive services and care pathways for people with common mental health conditions reduce an individual's usage of NHS services leading to efficiencies and cost savings, as well as contributing to overall mental wellbeing. This approach promotes inclusive, equitable services that meet the needs of the whole community.
Increasingly, there will be room for innovative approaches in the services commissioned, along with flexibility tailored to local need and to the personal needs of individuals seeking treatment. The key focus is on the outcomes achieved, and we will be evolving a currency and tariff to enable the introduction over the next year or so of Payment by Results for talking therapies.
Download Commissioning Talking Therapies for 2011/12- Issue 3. April 2011
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Commissioning Toolkit can help PCTs improve or establish stepped care psychological therapy services following NICE guidelines. The toolkit is structured around the commissioning cycle and is specifically linked to the World Class Commissioning competencies. It brings together a wide range of existing tools and guides and includes positive practice examples throughout.
Corporate Research Final Report - Bournemouth and Poole 2010
This
report provides evidence, insight and understanding into the IAPT
service in Poole and its users, following the IAPT aims of "ensuring
that the right service is being delivered to the right people, at the
right time with the right results". Data was analysed from the IAPT
outcomes dataset, relating to every IAPT service user over a 10 month
period, from 1st May 2009 - 28th Feb 2010.