Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services
Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, April 2022 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot.
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Data Set Change
April 22 is the first monthly publication using the new IAPT v2.1 data set.
14 July 2022 09:30 AM
Measures Removed
The following measure has been removed from the Monthly Activity Data file for April 2022. This is due to an inconsistency in the outputs, this issue is currently under investigation.
M237 Count_OffSickPay
14 July 2022 09:30 AM
Measures No Longer Needed
With the change in data set to IAPT v2.1, measures in the IAPT Monthly Activity Data File have been reviewed and 5 measures are no longer included in the report. The removed measures are M279, M280, M281, M282 and M1003.
The Employment Adviser report has also been reviewed and 83 measures are no longer included in the report. The removed measures are EA014 to 17, EA030 to 33, EA042 to 49, EA063 to 82, EA088 to 107, EA109, EA111, EA112 to 126, EA135 and EA141 to 149.
14 July 2022 09:30 AM
Measures Added
With the change in data set to IAPT v2.1, measures in the IAPT Monthly Activity Data File have been reviewed and 4 measures have been added to the report. The added measures are M287, M1018, M1019 and M1020.
The Employment Adviser report has also been reviewed and 9 measures have been added to the report. The added measures are EA276 to EA285.
14 July 2022 09:30 AM
Introduction
Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is an NHS programme in England that offers interventions approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)¹, for treating people with depression or anxiety.
The IAPT programme is supported by a regular return of data generated by providers of IAPT services in the course of delivering those services to patients. These data are received by NHS Digital and published in monthly reports.
This report summarises activity in the IAPT programme for April 2022². It shows key information about activity, patient outcomes, and waiting times.
A monthly time series of the key IAPT measures is also available in the Interactive dashboard for this publication.
Main findings
Information about the IAPT programme is based broadly on three areas:
• Outcomes: whether referrals measurably improved as a result of a course of IAPT therapy;
• Waiting times: how long referrals waited to be seen or treated by providers of IAPT services;
• Activity: such as how many referrals were received, had accessed services, or ended in the month, or how many appointments took place.
Activity
130,064 new referrals were received in April 2022.
96,515 referrals had accessed IAPT in the month.
138,836 referrals ended (for any reason) in the month.
Waiting times
Of the 52,482 referrals that finished a course of treatment in April 2022, 88.9% waited less than 6 weeks and 98.5% waited less than 18 weeks to access IAPT services.
Outcomes
49,489 referrals finished a course of treatment in April 2022 having started at caseness³, of which 24,959 (50.4%) moved to recovery.
¹ https://www.nice.org.uk/
² All historical IAPT publications can be found at Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services - NHS Digital.
³ ‘Caseness’ is the term used in IAPT to define a clinical case of anxiety or depression. See the ‘Guide to IAPT data and publications' published at Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) data set reports - NHS Digital for details.
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