as part of the improving access to psychological therapies iapt and following a small trial and series of cohort studies that assessed the programme efficacy a computerbased cbt programme beating the blues has been progressively rolledout across primary care practices in the united kingdom prescribed by a gp the patient then completes eight weeks of beating the blues sessions at home while the gp who enrolled the patient receives progress updates and risk alerts the programme has been found to bring reliable and clinically significant treatment effects when used in routine care and benefits are similar to the routine delivery of facetoface cbt care and was recommended by nice cavanagh nice as a useful lowintensity tool as part of a steppedcare framework