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    Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT): the impact of service changes due to COVID-19 on people with learning disabilities

    Rodhouse, C, Dagnan, D, Thwaites, R and Hatton, C ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8781-8486 (2022) Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT): the impact of service changes due to COVID-19 on people with learning disabilities. Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 16 (4). pp. 199-210. ISSN 2044-1282

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    Abstract

    Purpose: Primary care psychological interventions for people with common mental health problems in England are primarily delivered through Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services. People with learning disabilities within IAPT have poorer key clinical outcomes than people who do not identify as having a learning disability. During the global COVID-19 pandemic remote consultations have accounted for nearly 90% of all contacts in IAPT services; this paper aims to report the effects of these on outcomes for people with learning disabilities. Design/methodology/approach: Publicly available national data from the COVID-affected period are compared to the most recent available comparison periods that are not during the COVID pandemic. Data are presented graphically. Findings: People with learning disabilities differ little from those with no disabilities on several key process and outcome variables, although their clinical recovery is very much lower than those without disabilities. People with learning disabilities appear to have been affected by the changes in service delivery in a similar way to those without learning disabilities. Originality/value: Despite the shift to predominantly remote therapy delivery, outcomes for people with learning disabilities have not been differentially affected compared to those who have no recorded disability. The potential to learn what has worked and not worked in the delivery of remote interventions for people with learning disabilities is highlighted.

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