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<p>NHS England has not specified estimates of individual conditions for referral into
the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) integrated pathway. Local commissioning
groups decide which pathways they integrate with based on their local prevalence and
local intelligence data.</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, the NHS Digital IAPT dataset does
not collect information on patients with a diagnosis of cancer, or types of cancer.</p><p>
</p><p>There are currently no national plans to assess the effectiveness of the IAPT
long-term health conditions pathway on people affected specifically by blood cancer.
However there is robust evidence that by using the National Institute for Health and
Care Excellence approved psychological therapies in addressing the mental health issues
of those people with long term conditions earlier, talking therapies help to improve
patients’ health outcomes so that they become less reliant on primary and emergency
care and importantly, help patients to self-manage their long-term conditions more
confidently.</p>
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