Digital mental health and wellbeing service in Hillingdon

Digital mental health and wellbeing service to young people aged 16-25 years. The service funded by the Hillingdon CCG is made up of 3 offers. The service is based on the IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) model, providing CBT based therapeutic interventions to young people struggling with low level anxiety disorders and low mood.

Wellbeing webinars, BetterU@Brunel, delivery to Brunel University students was first piloted in the Spring of 2020 offering a 4-week Stress and Anxiety therapeutic offer to students struggling with poor mental health.

Following the successful delivery, the service was developed further from March 2020, to include all Hillingdon young people aged 18 to 25 years as well as an additional Covid-19 response service to support 16-25-year-olds affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The current offer

Additional information: Along with 7 other CCGs in the area, NHS Hillingdon Clinical Commissioning Group has been incorporated into a new CCG from 1st April 2021 - North West London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

A period of review is required from April 2021 to agree the future model of care and to identify the commissioning strategies for services across NW London for the coming year and beyond.

The existing contract is therefore being modified to extend its duration for an interim period of 6 months in order to enable this review to take place

The existing contract is being modified through contract variation to extend its term by 6 months which will increase the overall value of the contract by £12,500 during this additional term.