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<p>Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a National Health Service
programme that offers a range of interventions for treating people with depression
or anxiety.</p><p> </p><p>Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing is one of the
therapies that can be given to a patient referred to IAPT services.</p><p> </p><p>The
following table shows the number of referrals to IAPT services in from 2014-15 to
2016-17, for which at least one appointment included Eye Movement Desensitisation
Reprocessing as a treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Number of referrals with one or more appointments
where Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing was given as a treatment, England,
2014-15 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>6,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,922</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:
NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Due to a dataset version change, it has not been
possible to identify Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a therapy type in
appointments prior to 1 July 2014. Therefore 2014-15 is only a partial year of data.</li></ol><p>
</p><ol start="2"><li>Data are derived from annualised IAPT data. 2016-17 is the latest
available data and is available at the following link:</li></ol><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports"
target="_blank">www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports</a></p><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>This
table presents counts of referrals. A referral is a request for a care service to
be provided for a patient. Over time, a patient may have more than one referral to
IAPT services and so a count of referrals is not a count of people.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Medical
training is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent
statutory body. The GMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education
and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that medical students and newly
qualified doctors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential
for professional practice.</p><p /><p>The training curricula for postgraduate trainee
doctors is set by the relevant medical Royal College, and must meet standards set
by the GMC. Whilst curricula do not necessarily highlight specific conditions, they
instead emphasise the skills and approaches that a doctor must develop and maintain
in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients.</p><p
/><p>The GMC also sets the standards expected at undergraduate level and approves
medical school curricula. In so doing, they set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours
that new United Kingdom medical graduates must be able to demonstrate. This is further
detailed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp"
target="_blank">http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp</a></p>
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