Digital mental health services in general practice.

in the community, third-sector and statutory organisations, can all contribute. For general practice and primary care this will certainly require different training and more resources. The experience for all could be quite different: an individual with ‘stress’ booking straight into their choice of groups run by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services; a patient with psychosis booking their follow up with the practice-based community psychiatric nurse through GP receptionists; a third-sector practitioner liaising with a GP to discuss the mutually accessible online shared plan for an individual with psychosis; a GP calling a psychiatrist to discuss reducing doses of antipsychotic medication for a patient the psychiatrist had seen as a one off at the practice; the practice-based IAPT practitioner providing cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety as part of the aftercare plan following community-based alcohol detoxification. All possible with a small shift in allocation of NHS resources.