Associate Psychological Practitioners (APPs) in Primary Care - Modelling the Impact

Abstract

KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- One Associate Psychological Practitioner (if placed across a PCN, or within a number of practices) could free up at least 1,665 GP appointments within one year.
- Up to 48 people could benefit from attending Group Sessions and Wellbeing over the course of a year with one APP working with another primary care role. That is 384 group intervention sessions delivered.
- Having one APP in each of the 41 PCNs in Lancashire & South Cumbria could provide over 50,000 brief intervention appointments of 45 minutes each.

This case study outlines the approach followed and the findings of a project to model the impact of introducing the role of Associate Psychological Practitioner into Primary Care.