Doctors insist access and choice programme isn't a strain on demand

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Doctors running a programme to spread mental health resources into general practices are insisting that it isn't putting a strain on demand for specialist services.
The Access and Choice programme aims to make mental health services more readily available by putting them in GPs and has been running for three years.
Its critics say the programme has taken staff from secondary services, moving the workforce strain elsewhere in the healthcare system.
Psychiatrist David Codyre spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.