On 2 February 2011, the Government published No health without mental health, which sets out the strategy for improving the mental health and well-being of the nation. Central to this strategy is the Government’s commitment that the NHS will complete nationwide roll-out of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services between 2011/12 and 2014/15. The Talking Therapies: A four-year plan of action was published in conjunction with the mental health strategy and outlines how the 2010 Spending Review commitment to expand access to psychological therapies will be achieved. Specifically, the Department of Health financial settlement in the Spending Review 2010 rises in cash terms and includes around £400 million for psychological therapies over the period to April 2015. The NHS has already been notified of PCT allocations for 2011-12 which included additional funding for increasing access to talking therapies. Funding will continue to increase to enable PCTs to realise this commitments and will amount to an additional £400 million over the spending review period on top of the annual allocation of £173m from the first phase of the programme which will continue.
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