Psychological Services in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin
We worked with both IAPT services to produce a short survey that would give users of the service since 2014 the opportunity to feedback on what had gone well, what had not gone so well and to share any suggestions on how the service could be improved.
Findings
The two aspects of the service with the most positive comments were the quality of staff and quality of therapy. The two aspects with most negative comments were waiting times and the communication between the service and service users.
Suggestions for improvements to the service
Service users suggested the following improvements should be made to the service:
- Provide more support while waiting for therapy to commence
- Ensure that there are not long gaps between therapy sessions
- Keep changes to appointment times to a minimum
- Make sure that patients know when the sessions will be coming to an end
- Provide more information about the prescribed therapy before it starts
- Provide a follow-up phone call after the therapy course ends
- Reduce waiting times / employ more therapists
- Provide patients with a direct means of communication with their therapist
- Improve the assessment process to ensure therapy is aligned with the patient’s previous experience of therapy
- Provide individual face to face appointments in convenient locations
- Improve information about support organisation in the local area
- Ensure staff are aware of the complexities of living with long term physical conditions
- Provide a forum where those with lived experience can feed into the running of the service
Downloads
Full Report
You can download the full report, which includes a response from the service provider, here.
If you need this report in a different format please contact us:
enquiries@healthwatchshropshire.co.uk
01743 237884
