Talking Therapies Service in Warrington

Descriptions

A Talking Therapies Service for Warrington registered patients that includes: • Provision of timely and appropriate assessments for the range of common mental health problems; identifying the severity of symptoms, the degree of associated functional impairment and the duration of the episode. . • The timely provision of selected evidence-based therapies (as outlined within NICE Guidance) and associated routine collection of outcome measures. • For service users with co-morbid long-term physical health problems or medically unexplained symptoms - a reduction in the utilisation of physical health care e.g. attendances at A&E departments, non-elective admissions, referrals to outpatient appointments, GP appointments, use of Out of Hours.