REPAIR study – REferral PAthway into IAPT Research study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Investigating potential gaps in the referral pathway for primary care patients into Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services: a single-centre retrospective cohort and prospective survey study.
IRAS ID
250583
Contact name
Stacey Fisher
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
CP18-XX, CP18-XX
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 31 days
Research summary
Ensuring a mental health patient accessing the right care is essential. At present there are various ways for referral from primary care to IAPT (improving access to psychological therapies), from a GP writing a referral letter to a patient being asked by a GP to self-refer. For the latter, it is not certain that the patient will act on this. What is currently not known, however, is if such potential referrals could be considered ‘lost to follow-up’. This scenario may have significant consequences – for the patient themselves from health perspective and the GP from a legislative perspective - if a patient subsequently comes to harm. Therefore, through retrospective, comparative cohort analysis of GP and IAPT consultations this study will ascertain if there are any gaps in the referral system and if so, how these potentially can be rectified. We will also determine if there are underlying reasons for patients not being referred into, attending or completing therapy courses in the IAPT services, This will be done by surveying patients in both primary care and IAPT and by multivariate analysis of referral type and patient demographics and condition-related characteristics. This study should thereby contribute to optimisation of GP-IAPT service link-up
REC name
North East - York Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/NE/0261
Date of REC Opinion
16 Aug 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion