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
Waiting Times
One of the stated targets of the IAPT 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.
88.9% of referrals waited less than 6 weeks to access IAPT services.
The chart below shows that, nationally, waiting times measures have consistently been above the target, particularly the proportion seen within 6 weeks.
"For an explanation of the terms used and further information about how measures are calculated in IAPT see the 'Guide to IAPT data and publications' at Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) data set reports - NHS Digital.
⁵ See p16-17 of The Mandate: A mandate from the Government to NHS England: April 2015 to March 2016, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/386221/NHS_England_Mandate.pdf
Last edited: 8 May 2024 1:14 pm