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An Act to maintain and expand the provision of healthcare and savings to the public
sector provided by the IAPT programme.
[18th October 2014]
B E IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:
(f) adequate action was taken to continue to enable people to be productive and
healthy in their own lives, and allowing them to return to work, and
(g) adequate action was taken to increase awareness amongst at-risk groups,
including
(i) the elderly,
(ii) children and young people, and
(iii) people with a long-term physical health condition or medically-
unexplained symptoms.
2 Over-the-phone therapy
(1) The National Health Service has a duty to expand provision of over-the-phone talk
therapy by low-intensity therapists (LIT) on referral by a general practitioner.
(2) A patient judged to have severe symptoms should not be referred to a LIT.
(3) On completion of the treatment, the patient is to be scheduled to see a practitioner
who will determine whether the patient requires further treatment; and this will be
performed by a LIT and will last for a period of 4 weeks.