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

Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, April 2023 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisors Pilot

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:: 13 Jul 2023
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Boards

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Introduction

Summary

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 Employment Adviser Pilot.

Due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) disruption, it would seem that this is affecting the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We are also seeing some different patterns in submitted data. For IAPT, whilst the number of submitters remains unchanged, there is a significant change in the rates for recovery and improvement since pre-Covid-19 months.

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Highlights

Considerations, caveats and known issues relating to individual measures published in this series can be found in the NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) metadata document.

Click here to access the metadata document.

Key Facts

In April 2023 there were:

129,753 referrals to talking therapies

90% of referrals accessing IAPT within 6 weeks

93,381 referrals accessing IAPT

8.2 sessions of treatment on average per referral

49,815 referrals completed a course of treatment

50.9% referrals moved to recovery

67.6% of referrals finishing a course of treatment showed reliable improvement

45,668 Internet Enabled Therapy sessions took place

16,028 referrals with an integrated care contact

Interactive Dashboard April 2023

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Please note that these numbers reflect activity in the month 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 month.