Article: Remote CBT service launched for NHS patients with mild to moderate mental health issues Dec 2019

[Sly Saint]

Ieso Digital Health will provide online appointments through its online ThinkWell platform

Internet-enabled cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) provider, Ieso Digital Health is providing a new online therapy service to NHS patients with mild to moderate mental health conditions.

After officially launching its low intensity ‘step two’ CBT service in September, it rolled out a beta trial across a number of NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).

Patients receive treatment remotely via the company’s ThinkWell™ platform, which uses secure real-time messaging to provide confidential therapy and can be easily embedded into any NHS Trust’s mental healthcare offerings.

Ieso has also recruited psychological wellbeing practitioners (PWPs) and established a learning and development hub that will support staff and provide ongoing training. It has now started allocating patients to PWPs and carrying out initial therapy sessions.

The firm will take its trial into more CCGs over the coming weeks, with the full service being available nationwide from January 2020.

full article here
https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news...s-patients-mild-moderate-mental-health-issues

“With over three quarters of IAPT patients starting with Step 2 treatment and more than half (51.2%) then going from step two to step three therapy, our new service has been well received by our current NHS partners, particularly as it will enable patients to easily transition between treatments when required.

“Due to our extensive experience providing step three therapy, we can provide much needed end-to-end care to address step two conditions, such as mild to moderate depression and generalised anxiety disorder, by quickly assigning patients to a PWP within a few days of referral. This will help reduce long waiting lists. We’re already in talks to bring more NHS CCGs on-board so together we can get more people back to good health.”

hmm where's the evidence for this?

 

[chrisb]

hmm where's the evidence for this?

Evidence? Just look at the accounts. They will show the payments going out.

 

[Hoopoe]

I wanted to say something but it was too harsh even for my high tolerance.

I suppose this might be better than nothing for some but I find it disturbing that things have reached this level. If you've got an epidemic of depression and despair, you don't need mass psychotherapy made cheaper by technology, you need to improve people's living conditions, their opportunities in life and ensure fairness.

 

[Invisible Woman]

That's the idea. Take people who are already likely to be isolated and inward looking and replace the potential therapeutic value of simple human contact ( assuming the therapist isn't a complete buffoon - absolutely no guarantees there) and replace with an app.

In my view it's dismissive and diminishing of people's problems. You're nothing special, just do this course provided by the app. You don't even warrant or deserve the attention & time of another human being. Even a minimally trained IAPT one.

Cruel one size fits none strategy as far as I can see. Another step in dismantling an already poor mental health service. Hope Sir Simon is proud. He & his pals have laid the foundations for this.

 

[Sisyphus]

Start with some personal problems and perhaps mental illness.
Government remedy: Add "remote", "computer" and "algorithm".
When the results become "problematic", the wonderful caring government will respond with more surveillance, because Big Brother loves you.
Do not object; how could you not appreciate that personal interaction with an app hastily written by a coding shop in Hyderabad?

 

[Snowdrop]

ThinkWell. They even gave it an obvious Orwellian name. Unabashed nonsense.

Needs glaring stadium lights shone on this for maximum exposure.

People with poor mental health are another group that will find it difficult to find the energy to protest.

Also, technology is only secure until it's not. Ask hospitals who've paid ransoms when their data is hacked.

 

[Sean]

I wanted to say something but it was too harsh even for my high tolerance.

I suppose this might be better than nothing for some but I find it disturbing that things have reached this level. If you've got an epidemic of depression and despair, you don't need mass psychotherapy made cheaper by technology, you need to improve people's living conditions, their opportunities in life and ensure fairness.

Don't you just love how the psycho-social advocates completely avoid dealing with this aspect, despite it being a central and critical part of their model.

They are charlatans.

 

[rvallee]

Don't you just love how the psycho-social advocates completely avoid dealing with this aspect, despite it being a central and critical part of their model.

They are charlatans.

You'd also think they'd be interested in the impact of disease discrimination, how it causes ostracization and denial of basic support, negatively affecting outcomes to a measurable horribly low quality of life and decreased life expectancy. Especially given how much precedent there is, almost all of it coming from their own ranks. I can't think of a more relevant intersection of biology/physiology, psychology and sociology than a highly disabled patient population whose life is made significantly worse by systemic disease denial. It's smack in the middle of every concept they pretend to care about.

Well, BPS folks kind of are interested in that, they create that and perpetuate it, then offer snake oil as a solution. So I guess that prevents them from looking at it sincerely but you'd think given the words they use to describe that they would be concerned with those things. Nope, not even a bit, other than making it all worse of course. Weird.

It all reminds me of the first scene in Team America: World Police, where they leave downtown Paris a cratering mess of destruction and mayhem, in order to prevent terrorists from leaving downtown Paris a cratering mess of destruction.

"If we didn't intervene, things would have gone horribly wrong. They still ended up horribly wrong, but send trophies anyway. We'll send you a bill."