NHS to offer 'marriage counselling'
Updated on 22 November 2009
Couples who have hit a "rocky patch" will be offered counselling on the NHS if their relationship problems are causing depression, it has emerged.
The free advice will be available from April as part of the Government's talking therapies programme, IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies), which was set up to help people suffering from anxiety and depression get off sick pay and benefits and back to work.
The move, to be unveiled this week by Health Secretary Andy Burnham, will implement National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) guidance that recommends relationship therapy should be offered under the IAPT programme.
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