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Interventions and Care Delivery Models in the Context of Resource Limitations

Increasing Access to Evidence-based Psychological Therapies Across the World: Shared Learning and Complimentary Initiatives

1 - (SYM 18) The Use of Routine Outcome Data to Inform Developments in England's NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression

Thursday, June 25, 2026
4:05 PM - 4:22 PM PDT
Location: Yerba Buena Salon 1, B3 Level
Keywords: Psychotherapy Outcome, Adult Depression, Anxiety
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The English National Health Service’s (NHS) Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression (TTad) programme is considered world-leading in its ability to make evidence-based psychological treatments accessible. From the programme’s beginnings as ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT), it has grown such that TTad services now provide a choice of evidence-based treatments for the 1.8m people referred each year across England, the majority of whom self-refer online and 92% begin treatment within 6-weeks of referral. Treatment  consists of 8.4 therapy sessions on average, and a little over 50% of those that receive at least two treatment sessions end treatment in recovery. It is therefore no surprise that this programme has inspired the development of similar initiatives in several other countries, tailored to fit local healthcare contexts. Continued success has been achieved through continued development, informed by use of the routinely collected data in NHS TTad, with over 99% completion of the minimum dataset, which the services are mandated to collect by NHS England. This talk will demonstrate some of the innovate approaches to using these routinely collected clinical data, as well as developments with how treatment is delivered. In this talk a number of recent developments and upcoming projects around the TTad programme will be presented. This includes work examining the effect of CBT delivered in TTad on long-term health outcomes, highlighting impacts on incidence of dementia, cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, and the utilisation of hospital based healthcare services, as well as examining the outcomes in TTad for people with long-term health conditions and those with histories of severe and enduring mental illnesses.