Sharing your views on talking therapies
Later this year, the West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) are launching a new campaign that focuses on improving the Access to Physiological Therapies (IAPT) service. This service is available for all people who are living with common mental health conditions, including depression, stress, and anxiety.
Before the West Lancashire CCG’s campaign to promote this service begins, they released a survey to collect the views of people who are living with mental health conditions but who have not used this service.
The service not only offers free groups, courses, and therapy sessions to support patients, as well, supporting patients in understanding what they are going through and ways in which their confidence can be built.
The IAPT service allows for self-referrals. This means that individuals do not have to see a GP first.
At present, there are four providers of these services including:
- Lancashire Women – for men and women aged 16 and over who live in East Lancashire.
- Mindsmatter – for men and women aged 16 and over who live anywhere in Lancashire except Blackpool
- South Cumbria First Step – for men and women aged 18 and over who live anywhere in South Cumbria
- Blackpool Healthier Minds Service (Formally Supporting Minds) – for men and women aged 16 and over who live in Blackpool
To take part in the survey please click here.
The survey closes on Tuesday 31st May.