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NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics Including Employment Advisors, Performance October 2024

Official statistics

Publication Date:
12 Dec 2024

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Waiting Times

One of the stated targets of the NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression programme is that for referrals finishing a course of treatment in the month, 75% access services within 6 weeks, and 95% within 18 weeks5. These are based on the waiting time between the referral date and the first attended treatment appointment.

92.0% of referrals waited less than 6 weeks to access NHS Talking Therapies services.

Calculating Waiting Times

In October 2024, this calculation is performed as follows: 

(Count_AccessingServices6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment / Count_FinishedCourseTreatment) * 100

(55,685 / 60,534) * 100 = 92.0%

Sub-national waiting times rates are published in the Monthly Activity Data File as columns ‘Percentage_AccessingServices6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment’ and ‘Percentage_AccessingServices18WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment’.

The chart below shows that, nationally, waiting times measures have consistently been above the target, particularly the proportion seen within 6 weeks.

Figure 3: Percentage of referrals accessing NHS Talking Therapies within 6 and 18 weeks, October 2023 to October 2024, England
Download the data for this chart Figure 3: Percentage of referrals accessing NHS Talking Therapies within 6 and 18 weeks, October 2023 to October 2024, England

For an explanation of the terms used and further information about how measures are calculated in NHS Talking Therapies see the 'IAPT v2.1 guidance document' at  NHS Talking Therapies data set reports.

5 See p16-17 of The Mandate: A mandate from the Government to NHS England: April 2015 to March 2016

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