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Rehab and anxiety treatment services could remain split
Drug rehabilitation and psychological therapy services may remain splintered after Kingston Council “botched” a public consultation into moving treatments to Surbiton.
More than 1,000 residents signed a petition against moving rehabilitation services from Surbiton Health Centre to Hollyfield House, in Hollyfield Road.
Staff are shared between the Kingston Wellbeing Service and therapy for people with mild to moderate anxiety or depression [improving access to psychology therapies, or IAPT] – and doctors want to house them together. Dr Phil Moore, deputy chairman of Kingston clinical commissioning group (CCG), confirmed the move of IAPT to Hollyfield House and said it was planned about six months ago, for space reasons.
Opposition leader Liz Green said the council's engagement process had been "botched". Asked if the best clinical arrangement for staff may have been scuppered by the consultation, Coun Pickering simply said: "Yes."
Councillors have been told Surbiton Health Centre does not have enough space to house all wellbeing services. Splitting the teams has affected capacity and efficiency, council officers said.
Kingston Wellbeing Service (KWS) and psychological therapies (IAPT) were originally commissioned by the NHS as a single service. But, in April 2013, public health control was handed to local authorities and Kingston Council took over KWS. It has been run from Surbiton Health Centre since then, while IAPT, run by GPs in Kingston’s clinical commissioning group, is based in Acre Road, Kingston.
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