Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services
Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, August 2021 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisors Pilot
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Monthly Time Series for Key Measures
An issue has been identified in the CCG data for April and May 2021. This is a result of the recent CCG mergers, which came into effect in April 2021. Some providers have submitted activity under the old (pre-April 2021) CCG codes, and this activity has been mapped to ‘unknown CCG code’, instead of the correct new CCG code.
This is being reviewed and corrected data will be published when it is available.
Please note the timeseries data in this publication was updated on 07 March 2022 to include revised data, for some providers, for the period September 2020 to May 2021. The core data for August 2021 is unaffected. This is following a one-off resubmission exercise that took place in August 2021 and covered the data period September 2020 to May 2021 inclusive.
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IAPT Enter Treatment Rolling Quarter Report
An issue has been identified with the data in the IAPT Enter Treatment Rolling Quarter Report. This issue is being investigated and the file will be made available as soon as possible.
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Measures removed
The following measures have been removed from the Monthly Activity file for August 2021.
M203 Count_ADSMFinishedTreatment
M204 Count_AppropriatePairedADSM
M205 Percentage_AppropriatePairedADSM
This is due to an inconsistency in the outputs, this issue is currently under investigation.
Please note the IAPT Monthly Activity Data File and the Report on Employment Adviser IAPT services pilot file in this publication were updated on 14 April 2022 to include revised data for the measures that were previously removed for inconsistency in the outputs. The core data for August 2021 is unaffected.
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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 August 2021². 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
138,078 new referrals were received in August 2021.
95,793 of referrals had accessed IAPT in the month.
135,258 referrals ended (for any reason) in the month.
Waiting times
Of the 54,574 referrals that finished a course of treatment in August 2021, 91.8% waited less than 6 weeks and 98.8% waited less than 18 weeks to access IAPT services.
Outcomes
51,416 referrals finished a course of treatment in August 2021 having started at caseness³, of which 25,586 (49.8%) moved to recovery.
¹ https://www.nice.org.uk/
² All historical IAPT publications can be found at http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports.
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 http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports for details.
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