http://www.beyondblue.org.au/resources/health-professionals/community-access-program-bbcap
"NewAccess is a ground-breaking new beyondblue program that will allow thousands of people in Australian with depression and anxiety to access free psychological services before their condition worsens.
NewAccess is a new way to access psychological services for people experiencing mild to moderate depression and anxiety. Demonstration programs, funded by beyondblue and the Movember Foundation, will run in selected Medicare Local sites over a period of two years starting in 2013.
NewAccess aims to deliver a model of care that can reach people who currently have difficulty accessing existing services. This includes groups which are usually hard to reach such as men. The program will offer easily accessible, free, quality psychological support by trained coaches. The new service will complement existing mental health services, operating within a stepped care model.
NewAccess is the result of four years of research and collaborative discussion in Australia, and is based on the successful UKImproving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Program. The UK program has proven to be effective in achieving recovery rates in less time and at less cost than other services, and demonstrated that the provision of evidence-based psychological services can lead to a 50 per cent recovery rate for anxiety and depression.
NewAccess follows the UK model closely, but has been adapted for the Australian context. beyondblue has received overwhelming support for rolling out an Australian version of the UK model through consultations with mental health professionals, peak bodies, and people who experience depression and anxiety, their friends and family."
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