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<p>Over 900,000 people now access Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
services each year, and the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health includes our
commitment to expand services further to see a further one million more people treated
for mental health problems every year by 2020. Although problem gambling is not listed
amongst the provisional diagnosis categories that IAPT treats, IAPT practitioners
would be able to treat common mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety
which may affect people with gambling problems.</p><p> </p><p>A new version of the
IAPT dataset is being developed and it is intended that gambling problems will be
recorded in the revised dataset. This would enable us to better assess the impact
of IAPT services on people with gambling problems.</p><p> </p><p>People who experience
problems with gambling can access services in primary care and secondary care including
specialised mental health and addiction services. There are a range of services available
details of which can be found on the NHS Choices website. For example, Central and
North West London NHS Foundation Trust has a national problem gambling clinic which
accepts referrals from all over the United Kingdom including those with mental health
problems.</p>
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