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Date: Tuesday, August 6th 2013
Categories: All Leicestershire Charnwood Harborough Activities & Events Groups & Forums

The Improved Access to Psychological Therapies Service (IAPT) is a service for people over 16 years of age living in Leicestershire County and Rutland, who are feeling troubled, stressed, anxious or depressed.

It offers patients a trained therapist to talk to, who can also direct them to other support and services that are available.

The IAPT service in Leicestershire County and Rutland was set up in 2009. However, the currently commissioned service comes to a natural end on the 31st March 2014.

East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group will be re-procuring the service. This will mean putting the current service provision out to tender, to enable many different service providers to submit their proposals to be considered as prospective deliverers of the service.

As part of this process one of the elements that the CCGs are being asked to consider is how the service currently works with patients and other groups. They want to seek views from service users, the public and voluntary organisations, about what they would like to be taken into consideration when their new IAPT service is being developed. As such, there will be a number of questions that they would like your comments and feedback on as part of the session.

They are holding two events to discuss the current Improved Access to Psychological Therapies Service. These events will take place on:

Friday 16th August 2013

From 10am – 12pm at The Ramada Jarvis, Loughborough (click here for directions) and from 3pm – 5pm at the Innovation Centre, Market Harborough (click here for directions)

If you would like to attend either of these events please contact [email protected] stating which venue you would prefer to attend.