Psychological Therapies: A Case Study

To decrease Mental Health access to psychological therapies needs to be improved as well as equality being shown in mental health needs, a memory service assessment service of dementia should be established in Bolton and services should be targeted equally o respond to essential needs particularly amongst South Asian communities and deprived areas in Bolton.
In Bolton, currently there are many services that reduce Mental Health in the population. This includes:
Primary care. GP’s account for referrals into the psychological therapy services for common Mental Health problems including other health professionals and self-referrals which are also increasing. The data from services in Bolton for common Mental Health problems is recorded in their activity as part of the improving access to psychological therapies programmes. This data then demonstrates that there is roughly 39,361 people with common mental health problems, and therefore eligible for these services in Bolton.
Secondary care. This includes hospital admissions. Bolton is significantly higher than the average for England for hospital admissions for mental health conditions. This should be avoided and more community based mental health services need to be used.
Dementia services. This aims to
Care needs are considerably more for older people therefore this should be considered when planning provision of services. Nationally there were far more deaths in hospital in people aged 75. In 2006-08 there were 58.4% deaths in hospital compared to 15.5% who died in their own residence and 10.0% in old people’s homes. Most of these deaths happened because of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, stroke, dementia etc. However, the number of older people in the population is projected to continue as since 1901 the amount of over 65’s in the population was less than 2 million and now there’s over 9