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Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, computerized CBT programs have become the first-line of depression therapy before prescribing anti-depressant medications. The NHS, constrained by budgets allocated to the UK’s Primary Care Trusts who provide first-line care for British health citizens, are well-advanced in telehealth compared with U.S. providers.

For mild to moderate depression, “psychotropic medication is under greater scrutiny. There are serious questions about efficacy,” Margie Morris of Intel told me. “We need new solutions,” Margie believes.

You can read about those “new solutions” Margie recommends in my paper, The Online Couch: Mental Health Care on the Web, published by California HealthCare Foundation earlier this month. More about the NHS’s cost-effective approach to managing mild to moderate depression through CCBT can be found in theEvidence for tech-enabled behavioral healthsection of the report.

http://medcitynews.com/2012/07/american-doctors-should-follow-english-lead-and-swap-anti-depressants-for-cbt/