LurgeeLiz

Isn't it all just a load of existential nihilism anyway? Having a little Snoop around. #WearAMask please & thanks. ❤️ = solidarity. 🏳️‍🌈 & Disability ally.

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

Thanks to @Glennademeter for highlighting this issue

https://t.co/5ZyagMTPxc

[Glenna Demeter @Glennademeter]

@LurgeeLife @Jeremy_Hunt EAPA finds Health Assured did not meet expected ethical standards https://t.co/YCfxoKpvjC

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

25m employees have access to mental health support through their employer

Health Assured, who serve 13m employees, had their BACP accreditation suspended (now reinstated) after a BBC investigation revealed potential confidentiality breaches following complaints of poor service

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

Listen here to BBC File on 4 "Investigating Employee Assistance Programmes" which reports on in-house targets allegedly set by large EAPs causing the denial of support to many employees trying to access mental health support via employer benefit packages

https://t.co/7DdEW85IoM

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

@Glennademeter @Jeremy_Hunt Health Assured deliver private corporate counselling/therapy services for employers who have signed up to use them for their employees so whilst not a worry for IAPT (NHS Talking Therapy) users it's definitely worrying for those utilising their employer's benefits packages.

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

@Glennademeter @Jeremy_Hunt 😱 "The BBC’s File on 4 programme’s investigation alleged the EAP provider let corporate clients listen in to confidential helpline calls without the knowledge or permission of callers."

Unreal.

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

@Glennademeter @Jeremy_Hunt Thank you. I've used the most recent stats published by IAPT (aka NHS Talking Therapies) because they're even more damning than that paper shows. But it's definitely noteworthy that the authors highlighted that IAPT brings no added value to the field (i.e. similar recovery rates)

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

An actual Question Time on Thursday that might be relevant.

I'm hoping the Green's don't pull any punches and are very clear on what THEY are offering.

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

@DrAnnieHickox @RITB_ Thanks Annie. Another awful stat below for "completers"👇

(This might reassure pts who report this that they're not alone)

2024-2025: 39,157 classified as "reliably deteriorated"

(I know all therapies carry this risk but it's bigger stakes when provided by NHS I think)

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

@DrAnnieHickox @RITB_ I've given the stats for "Improving Access to Psychological Therapies" (now "NHS Talking Therapies") in the post RITB quotes: only 38% completion & only 47% "reliably recovered" at end of treatment.

I don't class it as rapid treatment but short-term, mostly step 2, treatment.

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

@Grraarrgh Indeed. He's the fading chief of the homogeneous neoliberal blob.

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

And there you have it...

Andy Burnham: "We need...genuine focus on the priorities of WORKING people"

Yet he recently spoke of the callousness of Johnson treating people like 2nd class citizens

Too ill or disabled to work? Not a priority, aka 2nd class citizen

It's continuity

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

@Grraarrgh Yes, see the second post of my thread...

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

Place your bets, what is Jeremy Hunts 'rapid treatment' for depression?

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

What are Jeremy Hunts "rapid treatments" for musculoskeletal conditions?

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

What is "rapid treatment" for depression?!
Does it involve MKUltra or ice picks?
Cannot think of a single therapy or treatment that is "rapid".
Ditto MSK conditions, is there a "rapid" knee/hip replacement service with 1 week recovery?

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

@Sunnydays4071 @leith1076 @Jeremy_Hunt Definitely agree about CBT & the actual provision of it 💯

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

@RITB_ ...or "all of the above", in chronological order.

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

Here's Burnham banging on about Boris Johnson inexcusably treating people like 2nd class citizens & an end to neoliberalism:

https://t.co/fTG24Q9awt

Yet Burnham's CSJ want to remove benefits from ~1m chronically ill/disabled people forcing them into poverty (2nd class citizens)

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

Politics isn’t working for places like ours.

I will change that.

#AndyBurnham #ForUs