Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England April 2020 Final including reports on the IAPT pilots

This statistical release makes available the most recent Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) monthly data, including activity, waiting times, and outcomes such as recovery.

IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with depression or anxiety.

This release also includes experimental statistics from the IAPT integrated health pilot and the IAPT Employment Adviser pilot.

A number of changes to NHS organisations were made operationally effective from 1 April 2020. These changes included: 74 former Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) merging to form 18 new CCGs; alterations to commissioning hubs; provider mergers; and the incorporation of Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) into the NHS commissioning hierarchy. The Organisation Data Service (ODS) is responsible for publishing organisation and practitioner codes, along with related national policies and standards. A series of ODS data amendments are required to support the introduction of these changes. This would normally result in a number of organisations becoming ‘legally’ closed including the 74 former CCGs. However, to minimise any burden to the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic and remove any non-critical activity, these organisations remain open within ODS data. ODS aim to both legally and operationally close predecessor organisations involved in April 2020 Reconfiguration on 30 September 2020.

26 October 2020 – Please note the final csv, monthly time series and interactive dashboard have been updated to only report data recorded against current organisations. Activity recorded against former CCGs is now available under the new CCG.

20 November 2020 – Please note the enter treatment rolling quarter has been updated to only report data recorded against current organisations. Activity recorded against former CCGs is now available under the new CCG.

COVID-19 and the production of statistics

Due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) disruption, it would seem that this is now starting to affect the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets including IAPT. We are also starting to see some different patterns in the submitted data. For IAPT, there is a significant change in the rates for recovery and improvement compared to the last 12 months. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period. For the duration of the COVID-19 period, we are now doing some early reporting to help with monitoring of any impact using provisional IAPT data.

As part of the IAPT Version 2.0 changes, we are reviewing our publication outputs and looking to redesign our Power BI Dashboards. If you would like to provide input into the redesign and provide any feedback before the new dashboards go live, please contact us via email: [email protected]

We hope this information is helpful and would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to complete a short customer satisfaction survey. Please use the survey in the related links to provide us with any feedback or suggestions for improving the report.

Resources

Related Links

• See all IAPT reports and contextual information
• Customer satisfaction survey
• Provisional May 2020 Psychological Therapies,Report on the use of IAPT services

Last edited: 1 December 2021 5:45 pm