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For many years, service delivery has evolved to meet large increases in demand for mental health treatment. However, simply evolving mental health services has resulted in excessive waiting times, lack of choice and poor connection to the evidence base. Revolution in mental health service delivery based on the implementation of LICBT within Step 2 of a stepped care model has provided a solution to these challenges. This chapter has highlighted that whilst based on a CBT model, key characteristics associated with the LICBT clinical method and workforce serve to distinguish low- from high-intensity CBT with these characteristics addressed more extensively in other chapters. As can be common with revolution however, several new challenges to be addressed have emerged.