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

Discussion in 'Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid' started by Esther12, Nov 28, 2018.

  1. Dx Revision Watch

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    I'm sure I've ssen this PPS site criticised here before, but couldn't find it when searching so am risking a re-post: https://ppss.cumbria.nhs.uk/
     
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    IAPT’s Training Of Therapist’s On Working With Long Term Physical Conditions Muddies The Waters on Efficacy

    20th March 2019

    http://www.cbtwatch.com/

    eta: see also earlier post on blog
    All IAPT Generated Studies Breach Evaluation Guidelines
     
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    I've just had a look at the CBT watch website. It consists of a series of short blog posts by a Dr Mike Scott, and a failed attempt to get a forum going for CBT therapists to share ideas and concerns that has 3 empty threads started by Scott in 2017.
    So basically it's a personal blog.
    There is no information I can see about who Dr Mike Scott is, but he is clearly concerned about IAPT.
     
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    Comment under the previous blog:
     
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    One of the confusing things about criticism of IAPT is that a lot of it comes from psychotherapists who prefer to tailor their own particular methods to each patient. Whether they have any better evidence base, who knows.
     
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    This legal firm seem to have been tracking the PACE trial issues for some time now, and this shows they are keeping themselves up to date. I think their continuing interest maybe means they smell the potential for a lot of business that might come their way.

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    The Improving Access to
    Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
    Pathway for People with
    Long-term Physical Health
    Conditions and Medically
    Unexplained Symptoms

    from March 2018
    https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-conte...al-therapies-long-term-conditions-pathway.pdf

    "70% of people with MUS such as IBS or CFS will also experience co-morbid depression or anxiety disorders"

    do we know where this stat came from?

    also, isn't most of the 'research evidence' that the recommendations are based on mostly using CBT to treat the actual 'condition' (ie cfs) as opposed to treating co-morbid depression or anxiety?

    If the idea of IAPT is to combine the medical and mental healthcare, where/what is the medical care for pw ME or CFS?
     
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    Looking at this document two things send out for me.

    Firstly it is written like an advertising brochure rather than an evidence-based guidance document.

    Secondly, it is completely opaque is to what type of CBT is being suggested for 'MUS' and for what purpose. The most ambiguous sentence is:

    An expert advisory group was convened by NHS England to review existing NICE guidance for the use of psychological therapies for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders in the context of LTCs and the treatment of MUS (see the box on the right).

    This makes it sound as if this is treatment for MUS, not for co-morbid anxiety and depression. But the box on the right does not tell us.
     
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    There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

    This one is a beauty: this patient population is systematically and incompetently misdiagnosed with mental health issues, therefore they statistically suffer from mental health issues. Ethically, this is like police officers mass-planting drugs on suspects and showing those in statistics to justify why they were justified in making those arrests.

    It's a self-reinforcing ouroboros of bullshit.
     
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    That shows the success of the thirty year plan. Never mind the effect on the kulaks.
     
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    I just randomly saw this last night so wanted to post a link to it without making any comment. However, on revisiting the site, it is notable that the list doesn't include 'Long term conditions', or the relevant links to the NICE guidance on, for example, diabetes, MS or Parkinsons.
     
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    I notice one of the responses to the blog linked above highlights this training day on LTC's and MUS by the Royal College of Psychiatry:
    Working with Long Term Physical Illness & Medically Unexplained Symptoms

    This description of it gives me the horrors:

     
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