Publication, Part of NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors
NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors, Performance April 2025
Official statistics
Summary
This statistical release makes available the most recent NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression monthly data, including activity, waiting times, and outcomes such as recovery.
NHS Talking Therapies is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with depression or anxiety. This release also includes statistics about NHS Talking Therapies employment advisor services.
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Highlights
Changes to employment status measures
A methodological change has been made for some measures related to employment status. Where the person is unemployed, SicknessAbsenceInd is no longer considered in counts for the for the following measures: M318, M322, M326, EA052, EA056, EA278. SicknessAbsenceInd is now taken into account where the person employment status is unknown for the following measures: M319, M323, M327, M331, EA053, EA057.
Considerations, caveats and known issues relating to individual measures published in this series can be found in the NHS Talking Therapies Metadata document.
Details of all known data quality issues that impact this publication series can be found in the NHS Talking Therapies data quality note document.
Click here to access the metadata and data quality note document.
Key Facts
In April 2025:
133,908 referrals to NHS Talking Therapies
90.3% of referrals accessed NHS Talking Therapies within 6 weeks
98,889 referrals accessed NHS Talking Therapies
8.5 sessions of treatment on average per referral
57,359 referrals completed a course of treatment
48.4% of referrals reliably recovered
68.7% of referrals finishing a course of treatment showed reliable improvement
36,414 Internet Enabled Therapy sessions took place
22,051 referrals received their first integrated care contact
7,190 referrals attended an initial employment support appointment
Please note that these numbers reflect activity in the month and are not all based on the same group of referrals.
The proportion of referrals starting treatment within 6 weeks, mean treatment session, reliable recovery rate, and the reliable improvement rate are based on referrals completing a course of NHS Talking Therapies treatment in the month.
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Last edited: 12 June 2025 9:35 am