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ICAS PROVIDES ONLINE SOLUTION FOR BEATING THE BLUES
30/04/2007
ICAS, Europe’s leading employee well-being provider, has contracted with Ultrasis plc (‘Ultrasis’ or the ‘Company’), the provider of computer-delivered, interactive healthcare products and associated services to provide its flagship programme Beating the Blues as an integral component of ICAS’ services.
ICAS are a new customer for Ultrasis, in a significant new market for the Company, underlining the substantial market potential for Beating the Blues beyond its current deployment, which is mainly in the public sector. The agreement is further recognition of the benefits of using computers to deliver access to treatments for common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety.
ICAS will actively support employees who access the programme through its well established telephone counselling and remote case management services.
Stephen Galliano, Chief Executive Officer of ICAS, said: “We decided to add Beating the Blues to our high-quality range of services after close consultation with Ultrasis and a thorough evaluation of the programme. We expect BtB will add greatly to our offering by enhancing employee performance, development and well-being.”
“With common mental health problems becoming a real concern in the workplace and currently estimated to cost British business in excess of £9 billion per annum, this is an ideal opportunity for our corporate customers to offer their employees another way of accessing the latest, evidence-based treatments, either to help support them to stay in work or, where absence is unavoidable, return to work much sooner.”
Nigel Brabbins, Chief Executive of Ultrasis plc, said: “We are delighted that the partnership we are developing with ICAS will enable the employees whom they support to get access to the latest, evidence-based treatments for depression and anxiety.
“Importantly it will also help us to look at new models of delivery, using the high-quality remote, case-management systems that ICAS has used to support people for more than 20 years. What we learn from this could help inform new ways to deliver healthcare in the future.”
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