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<p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, commits the National Health
Service to improving the provision of mental health support for older people with
a range of needs and diagnoses, including common mental health problems and severe
mental illnesses. This improvement applies across all mental and physical health services
and settings, including Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), community,
crisis and liaison mental health care as well as new models of integrated care for
older people living with frailty. The National Implementation Framework, to be published
later this spring, will provide further information on how the Long Term Plan will
drive improvements in older people’s mental health care.</p><p> </p><p>The Department
and NHS England remains committed to increasing older people’s access to psychological
therapies via the IAPT programme. Data shows that once older people access psychological
therapy in IAPT they achieve positive outcomes. The recovery rate for those people
aged 65 and over who access treatment has increased from 57.8% in 2014/15 to 64.9%
in 2017/18.</p>
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