Treating people for depression is about making sure there are a number of options and choices which suit a wide range of patients, it has been noted.
Alison Kerry, from mental health charity Mind, said that the group wants to see a range of options for treatment as every patient needs caring for in a different way.
However, she noted that across the UK, the amount of choice given to patients may depend on whereabouts in the country they live and what resources their GP has available to them.
"There is somewhat a postcode lottery, so in some parts of the country there might be lots of alternatives and the GP can offer you something other than anti-depressants, but in other parts of the country people aren't so lucky," she pointed out.
According to figures from the Mental Health Foundation, 75 per cent of GPs admitted giving patients with recurring depression anti-depressants when they believed a different way of treating them may have been more useful.
