Greenwich PCT signs up for CCBT
Birmingham-based CCBT Ltd has been awarded a two-year contract from
Greenwich PCT to supply its computer-aided cognitive behaviour therapy (CCBT)
systems, providing more patients with mild to moderate mental-health
problems with an effective means of tackling them.
The PCT will be using CCBT Ltd’s FearFighter — the only
computer-aided therapy system for the treatment of panic and phobias to
have been recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence
(NICE).
FearFighter, created by Professor Isaac Marks and Stuart Toole,
guides patients through a 10-week CBT self-help programme, which they
can complete in the comfort of their own homes. The fruit of over 10
years of development, the system has been tested in clinical randomised
controlled trials and is, according to CCBT Ltd, “the most fully
realised evidence-based form of CCBT”.
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been clinically proven to be
one of the most effective treatments for mild to moderate depression and
anxiety and related conditions. CCBT Ltd’s offerings provide an
innovative way of delivering care to the six million sufferers in the UK
who, because of a nationwide scarcity of CBT practitioners, have
sometimes been left with no option but to take antidepressant drugs.
See also ‘software better than drugs for moderate depression, says
NICE’, front news section.
Source: bjhc&im April 2006
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