NHS Somerset Community RightSteps

Overview

Somerset Community RightSteps to Emotional Health and Wellbeing is a new service providing Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) compliant stepped care interventions to individuals experiencing some form of emotional/psychological distress.

What we do

The service will be provided by Somerset Community Health, who will be responsible for the management, clinical leadership and clinical governance of the service. Specifically, they will offer Step Three interventions including:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Other NICE compliant Psychological Therapies
• Both can be delivered in the form of brief short term and longer term intensive sessions

Steps One and Two of the model will be provided by Turning Point as well as Mind and Somerset Racial Equality Council (SREC) who will offer:

• Initial assessment
• Advice and information leaflets
• Access to appropriate books via local libraries
• Exercise referral
• Guided self help
• Employment support
• Computerised CBT
• Telephone support
• Skills Workshops
• Signposting to other organisations
• Community Mentoring
• Drop in sessions

Where we do it

The service will be offered in a range of locations. One to one interventions will continue to be embed-ded in GP practices and will be offered in these lo-cations in the vast majority of cases.

Additionally there will be the opportunity for individ-ual and group interventions to be offered in other community locations.

How to access

You can refer to Somerset Community RightSteps through the Choose & Book system. Patients can then telephone a countywide contact number and specify when they would like to be assessed and by which locality team.