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NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors, Performance June 2024 and Quarter 1 2024/25 data

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NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors, Performance June 2024 and Quarter 1 2024/25 data


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

New measure

As part of the Performance June 2024 publication, 1 new measure (M288) has been added to the Monthly Activity file. 

Full details are available in the Metadata file and NHS Talking Therapies publication list.

New report (published 10/09/2024)

As part of the Performance June 2024 and Quarter 1 2024/25 publication a new Quarterly Report on Employment Advisor NHS Talking Therapies Services has been published. This report describes patients employment status and benefit status at the start and end of treatment after undertaking in NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression, and/or Employment Support.

These reports have been backdated to April 2022 and are available for download in the Resources section at the bottom of this page. This report will form part of the quarterly release of the NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors publication series going forward.


Considerations, caveats and known issues relating to individual measures published in this series can be found in the NHS Talking Therapies metadata document.

Click here to access the metadata document.

Key Facts

In June 2024 there were:

135,213 referrals to NHS Talking Therapies

92.4% of referrals accessing NHS Talking Therapies within 6 weeks

98,031 referrals accessing NHS Talking Therapies

8.3 sessions of treatment on average per referral

54,080 referrals completed a course of treatment

50.9% referrals moved to recovery

67.7% of referrals finishing a course of treatment showed reliable improvement

41,404 Internet Enabled Therapy sessions took place

21,915 referrals with an integrated care contact

5,548 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, and the recovery rate are based on referrals completing a course of NHS Talking Therapies treatment in the month.




Last edited: 10 September 2024 11:07 am