Ten years on from the inception of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Service (IAPT), it is important to review what would have happened but for IAPT. Using this comparison (what economists term the appropriate counterfactual), it is far from clear that IAPT has conferred any advantage and it is extremely doubtfuI whether the £1.3 billion spent on it has been worthwhile. Perhaps in the New Year IAPT should be renamed Impoverished Access to Psychological Therapies!
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Happy New Year
Dr Mike Scott