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IAPT Reinvestment and Expansion Act 2014 1

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IAPT Reinvestment and Expansion Act 2014


2014 CHAPTER 34
BILL 15

An Act to maintain and expand the provision of healthcare and savings to the public
sector provided by the IAPT programme.
[18th October 2014]

B E IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Renewal and increased investment in IAPT


(1) The Secretary of State must
(a) extend the Improving Access to Physical Therapies programme (IAPT) for a
further 4 years, and
(b) increase funding to the programme by 20 percent.
(2) The increased funding must be applied, in such proportion as the Secretary of State
considers fit, for or in relation to
(a) providing over-the-phone treatment (see section 2),
(b) the development of an online self-help platform (see section 3),
(c) training mental health practitioners in high-intensity therapy (HIT),
(d) expanding the provision of HIT,
(e) training in psychotherapy, psychology, and managerial skills.
(3) The Secretary of State has a duty to ensure that, at the end of the period of four
years described in subsection (1)(a)
(a) the number of patients entering treatment through IAPT is increased by 1
million,
(b) the current number of patients receiving treatment is maintained,
(c) the current recovery rates are maintained,
(d) adequate investment has been made in over-the-phone treatment,
(e) services have been expanded to meet local needs,
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(f) adequate action was taken to continue to enable people to be productive and
healthy in their own lives, and allowing them to return to work, and
(g) adequate action was taken to increase awareness amongst at-risk groups,
including
(i) the elderly,
(ii) children and young people, and
(iii) people with a long-term physical health condition or medically-
unexplained symptoms.

2 Over-the-phone therapy
(1) The National Health Service has a duty to expand provision of over-the-phone talk
therapy by low-intensity therapists (LIT) on referral by a general practitioner.
(2) A patient judged to have severe symptoms should not be referred to a LIT.
(3) On completion of the treatment, the patient is to be scheduled to see a practitioner
who will determine whether the patient requires further treatment; and this will be
performed by a LIT and will last for a period of 4 weeks.

3 Online self-help platform


(1) The Secretary of State must take such action as the Secretary of State considers
necessary or expedient for the purposes of providing, through the National Health
Service website, a self-help platform.
(2) In doing so, the Secretary of State must have regard to the aims of
(a) improving awareness of mental health services,
(b) increasing participating in mental health treatment, and
(c) reducing anxiousness of patients about receiving treatment.
(3) The Secretary of State must ensure that all content within the self-help platform is
approved by a team of therapists.
(4) A patient must be able to, through the self-help platform, directly contact a local
service provider and request phone correspondence to determine whether they are
interested in therapy.

4 Extent, commencement and short title


(1) This Act extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.
(2) This Act comes into force on the day it is passed.
(3) This Act may be cited as the IAPT Reinvestment and Expansion Act 2014.

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