Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Annual Reports on the use of IAPT services

Psychological Therapies, Annual report on the use of IAPT services, 2021-22

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:: 29 Sep 2022
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: NHS Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Regions, Ambulance Trusts, Provider

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Additional analysis of therapy-based outcomes in IAPT services

On the 19th September 2023, an issue was identified in this publication relating to the Therapy-Based Outcomes statistics was published, which resulted in them being taken offline. This has now been resolved and the pages restored. NHS England apologises for any inconvenience caused.

22 January 2024 15:41 PM

A correction has been made to this publication on 23/04/2024. These amendments relate to the following measures:

Mean_ContactTimeIETReferral
Percentage_IntergratedAppointments
Percentage_IntegratedAppointmentsFCT

These measures are published in the "psych-ther-ann-rep-csv-2021-22-iet-ltc-v2.csv" file, all measures have now been corrected. NHS England apologises for any inconvenience caused.

23 April 2024 09:21 AM

Summary

This statistical release is the annual report on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022. IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with anxiety or depression.

The publication contains analyses on activity, waiting times and outcomes such as recovery in 2021-22. In addition, the report covers a range of demographic analyses including outcomes for patients of different ages, ethnic group and separately for ex-British Armed Forces personnel.

This report also contains additional analysis for therapy-based outcomes in IAPT services.

The attached outputs for this publication still refer to some old terminology i.e. 'started' or 'entered treatment', which map to the new terminology of 'accessing services' as presented on the publication pages. This will be updated for next year's annual report.

Highlights

1.81 million referrals to talking therapies

up 24.5% from 1.46 million in 2020-21

91.1% accessed IAPT services within 6 weeks

up 1.1 percentage points from 90.0% in 2020-21

1.24 million referrals accessed IAPT services

up 21.5% from 1.02 million in 2020-21

7.9 sessions of treatment on average

up from 7.5 sessions in 2020-21

664,087 referrals completed course of treatment

up 4.6% from 634,649 in 2020-21

50.2% referrals moved to recovery

down 1.2 percentage points from 51.4% in 2020-21

648,617 sessions of Internet Enabled Therapy were recorded.

Annual Interactive Dashboard 2021-22

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Therapy-Based Outcomes Interactive Dashboard 2021-22

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Please note that that these numbers reflect activity in the year 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 IAPT treatment in the year.