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YM signs The New Savoy Declaration

02/12/2007

YoungMinds shows its support for the The New Savoy Declaration, a new initiative by the government to help those suffering from depression and anxiety get quicker access to evidence-based therapies

The New Savoy Declaration

“Depression and anxiety affect millions of people in the UK, yet few receive the psychological therapies that could help with recovery. Many with the courage to seek help have to wait for many months for treatment or have to pay for it privately.

The Government has committed itself to turning this around and to implementing NICE Guidelines for depression and anxiety so that everyone can have timely access to state-of-the-art evidence-based therapies.

We congratulate the Government on this welcome initiative and call on the NHS to offer appropriate psychological therapies free at the point of delivery to all people who need them, within six years. We call for people to be given a choice of appropriate, evidence-based therapies available close to home when they need them.

And we urge Government to invest in the further development and evaluation of psychological therapies to make the UK a world leader in this field.

We commit to working together to support the NHS to build up its psychological therapy provision and to ensure that the new services are safe, effective and successful.”

30 November 2007

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