The IAPT Pathway for People with Long-term Physical Health Conditions and MUS. Full implementation guidance.

From your quote, @Trish

Does it not occur to any of these people that not every patient is anxious and they are barking up the wrong tree? And in the situation that a patient with physical symptoms is anxious it is much more likely that the physical symptoms came first. I get the impression that cause and effect have been perverted to such an extent that some "researchers" think which came first is totally irrelevant.

 

Well, there goes the "cBT Is ALso uSed fOR cAncER" line.

 

Those are all aspirational and do not describe real things, just things they wish they were able to do. It reads like a comedy sketch on pseudoscience-based medicine.

 

Off Topic : I've seen this mixing up of lower and upper case letters on phrases being used a lot in the last year or so in all sorts of circumstances. Can anyone tell me why and what it is supposed to signify?

 

I agree!

 

I don't know exactly how it started but it's from a Spongebob Squarepants meme where you mock what someone said, in general terms, because it's stupid. Can repeat exactly or loosely paraphrase the thing.

 

Thanks for the explanation, @rvallee

 

… and there was I, thinking it was a new mnemonic from King's.

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1194912796267466752


41% of respondents say they were asked to manipulate "performance data".

 

Those answers to the survey ...



are absolutely shocking. And tax payers are paying for this utterly useless service.

 

Oh, but it's just for the low, low price of over £3B. Almost a bargain for no benefits at all.

The beauty is that the system will now feed itself, if we're to believe the 2/3 of employees who are experiencing distress as a result of their work. They will need IAPT services themselves, creating a self-perpetuating loop of therapists becoming users themselves, then back to therapist role and on and on. By the end the only users of the service will be IAPT therapists themselves taking turns doing both roles, like someone playing chess against themselves.

Some of those responses could have been written specifically about PACE. Total surprise that the thing that failed every small test is also failing every one of its much bigger tests. Nobody could have predicted that. Other than those who did...