Submitting IAPT data
All organisations that provide NHS funded IAPT services in England must submit data. This page explains the data you need to submit and how.
New name for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
Following an extensive engagement process, NHS England national mental health team has recently announced a new name for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services: NHS Talking Therapies, accompanied by the following tagline: for anxiety and depression.
For further information about the name change, please visit the NHS England pages What’s in a name? NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression the new name for IAPT services.
The data set will continue to be referred to as ‘IAPT’ until the next uplift of the data set has received DAPB approval.
How to submit data to the SDCS Cloud
For information and guidance on the SDCS Cloud, including how to register for a user account and guidance on submitting data, please see the Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) Cloud web page.
Change to submission windows
To provide more timely statistics in the NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors publication series, revised submission windows will be introduced to support a move to reporting data in the month following activity starting with October 2023 activity data.
Activity data related to October, will be captured in November, and reported upon in the December 2023 publication. Statistics presented in the NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors publication series will therefore be derived from data captured in the current provisional window (formerly called the primary window).
Going forward this single window and the publication will be termed the performance window and the performance publication respectively, reflecting that it will be employed to assess performance.
As with the current situation, a second window will remain in place and providers will have the ability to re-submit data in the month following the new performance window. This has historically been termed the refresh (or performance) submission window and will now be referred to as the final window.
Any data submitted in the final window will feed into rolling measures within future publications and the publication of annual statistics at the end of the financial year (there will not be a second monthly publication directly following the final window).
Submission dates
Dates for submissions for April 2025 to April 2026 performance data are shown in the table below.
Final month | Performance month | Submission window opens at 00.01am | Submission window closes at 11.59pm |
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March 2025 | April 2025 | 1 May 2025 | 27 May 2025 |
April 2025 | May 2025 | 1 June 2025 | 25 June 2025 |
May 2025 | June 2025 | 1 July 2025 | 28 July 2025 |
June 2025 | July 2025 | 1 August 2025 | 28 August 2025 |
July 2025 | August 2025 | 1 September 2025 | 24 September 2025 |
August 2025 | September 2025 | 1 October 2025 | 27 October 2025 |
September 2025 | October 2025 | 1 November 2025 | 26 November 2025 |
October 2025 | November 2025 | 1 December 2025 | 23 December 2025 |
November 2025 | December 2025 | 1 January 2026 | 27 January 2026 |
December 2025 | January 2026 | 1 February 2026 | 25 February 2026 |
January 2026 | February 2026 | 1 March 2026 | 25 March 2026 |
February 2026 | March 2026 | 1 April 2026 | 29 April 2026 |
March 2026 | April 2026 | 1 May 2026 | 28 May 2026 |
Contact us
If you have a general enquiry about the data set, contact us at [email protected] or telephone us on 0300 303 5678.
Last edited: 16 May 2025 4:27 pm