NHS Talking Therapies data set reports

NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression is an NHS programme in England that offers interventions approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Following a public consultation Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services have been renamed as NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression. The data set will continue to be referred to as IAPT until the next uplift of the data set has received DAPB approval.

The NHS Talking Therapies programme is supported by a regular return of data generated by providers of NHS Talking Therapies services in delivering those services to patients. These data are received by NHS England and released as statistical publications covering activity, waiting times and patient outcomes such as recovery. Further information can be found in the supporting documents section below.

NHS Talking Therapies publications

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NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors

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NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression, Annual reports

NHS Talking Therapies annual report. This statistical release is the annual report on the NHS Talking Therapies programme.

List of all NHS Talking Therapies publications

This spreadsheet contains a list of all NHS Talking Therapies publications and their contents. It also includes a reference for mapping measures from IAPT version 1.5 to IAPT version 2.

List of all NHS Talking Therapies publications

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NHS Talking Therapies data quality note

The NHS Talking Therapies Data Quality (DQ) notes contain details of all known DQ issues that impact on the IAPT dataset. We recommend that users refer to this document in conjunction with statistical publications to gain a full understanding of the quality of the NHS Talking Therapies data.

NHS Talking Therapies data quality note

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NHS Talking Therapies Metadata

This document describes the content of the NHS Talking Therapies monthly and quarterly data files in the NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors publication series.

NHS Talking Therapies Metadata

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IAPT data set version 2.1

IAPT data set version 2.1 is now live. These documents refer to official statistics released from 14 July 2022 onwards.

IAPT v2.1 guidance document

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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) publications data quality statement

Provides users with detailed data quality information for the statistical outputs based on the IAPT dataset. It aims to provide users with an evidence-based assessment of the quality of the statistical output by reporting against those of the European Statistical System (ESS) quality and related dimensions and principles appropriate to this output.

IAPT version 1.5 supporting documents

These resources relate specifically to publications prior to January 2021, which used version 1.5 of the dataset and are available through the national archive.

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Guide to IAPT data and publications

These resources relate specifically to publications prior to January 2021, which used version 1.5 of the dataset.

Historic IAPT publications

Reports on the Integrated Services and Employment Adviser in IAPT publication series has been superseded by the NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics including Employment Advisors publication series from August 2023 (the May 2023 monthly publication).

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Psychological Therapies, Annual Reports on the use of IAPT services

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Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services

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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Key Performance Indicators (IAPT KPIs)

Methodological change papers

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Methodological changes

Documented changes to the methodology used in NHS Digital's publications

Consultations

These reports summarise responses to user consultation exercises carried out by NHS Digital to understand how people engage with our publications. The consultations were carried out in May 2018 and May 2016.

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Responses to a user consultation on IAPT publications May 2018 and May 2016

User consultation summary reports from the May 2018 and May 2016 consultations available through the national archives.

Further information

Mental Health Data Hub

The mental health data hub is designed to help people find data relating to mental health. The data hub provides links to a variety of statistical publications and dashboards from a number of organisations.

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