Dear ...

I am contacting you as my consituency MP to ask you to support Early Day Motion 436 which calls for improved access to psychological therapies on the NHS for people with mental health problems.

I hope you agree with me that talking treatments should be a central element of mental health services and that provision must be improved.

If you would like to find out more about talking treatments and the We Need To Talk report visit http://www.weneedtotalk.org.uk/

The text of the EDM reads:

That this House commends the Mental Health Foundation, Mind, Rethink and the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and Young Minds for their excellent report, We Need to Talk, which puts the case for psychological therapies to be provided by the National Health Service; urges the NHS to implement the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance on psychological therapies as a matter of urgency and to introduce waiting time measures for access to mental health treatments; further urges the Government to commit adequate resources to improve access to talking therapies; and calls on the Department of Health and other regulatory bodies to make a realistic assessment of the workforce and training implications of delivering psychological therapies to ensure substantive measures for public protection from malpractice and to support more research into psychological therapies.

Many thanks for your help.

Yours Sincerely