Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services
Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, August 2022 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Implementation of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs)
Please note: Due to the implementation of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), formally established across the NHS in England on 1 July 2022, the August data has now been updated to include the ICB / sub-ICB breakdowns.
13 January 2023 00:00 AM
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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Note: Corrections have been made to the M110 (Count_CBTAppts) and M1020 (Count_ConsMediumChatRoomAppts) variables in the Monthly Activity Data file for April 2022 through to December 2022. In addition, Commissioning Region breakdowns have been added to the IAPT Monthly Activity Data File. Where the CCG for Provider DA201 (SURVIVORS MANCHESTER(SALFORD)) was listed as "InvalidCode" ("Unknown"), it has been changed to "14L" ("NHS MANCHESTER CCG").
Highlights
Establishment of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) / Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs) and abolition of CCGs and STPs as of July 2022
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) were formally established across the NHS in England on 1 July 2022, with the introduction of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs), and abolition of CCGs.
Further information around the introduction of ICBs and ICPs is available via the relevant Organisation Data Service (ODS) page here.
The derivations necessary to support reporting under the new commissioning structures were completed in December 2022. The publication now includes the ICB / sub-ICB breakdowns. The August data was republished to include the relevant breakdowns in January 2023.
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.
Key Facts
In August 2022 there were:
145,149 referrals to talking therapies
88.6% of referrals accessing IAPT within 6 weeks
101,382 referrals accessing IAPT
8 sessions of treatment on average per referral
59,376 referrals completed a course of treatment
49.4% referrals moved to recovery
66.5% of referrals finishing a course of treatment showed reliable improvement
59,772 Internet Enabled Therapy sessions took place
15,982 referrals with an integrated care contact
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.
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