Views wanted on talking therapies for adults service in Calderdale

Health bosses are seeking views on how the talking therapies service for adults in Calderdale is delivered. 

NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is responsible for planning and buying healthcare services for the local population. 

It is looking at how it can improve services and would like hear your ideas and experiences how we could do this. Talking Therapies includes CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and helps people manage anxiety and depression and provides counselling. It is about providing people in Calderdale with accessible and appropriate psychological support to help improve and maintain their mental wellbeing.

In Calderdale, Talking Therapies are currently provided by Insight Healthcare and South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. These services are also known as IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapy).

Calderdale CCG say: “We would like to gather people’s views and experiences of using the current talking therapies services.  As well as your ideas of how you feel the service could be improved. Your feedback will be used to inform and shape a psychological service which meets the needs of local people.  

“We would appreciate if you could take five minutes to share your thoughts/experiences with us by clicking on the following link https://www.calderdaleccg.nhs.uk/iapt-survey/  are very important to us.”

If you require the survey in another format or language or need some help to complete the survey please call 01924 504956 (Monday – Friday 9am until 5pm) and someone will help you.

Closing date for the survey is Friday 6 March 2020.