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Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England - February 2020 Final including reports on the IAPT pilots

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
14 May 2020
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Boards
Date Range:
01 Feb 2020 to 29 Feb 2020

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Waiting Times

One of the stated targets of the IAPT programme is that for referrals finishing a course of treatment in the month, 75% enter treatment within 6 weeks, and 95% within 18 weeks⁴. These are based on the waiting time between the referral date and the first attended treatment appointment.

87.8% of referrals waited less than 6 weeks to enter treatment

Calculating Waiting Times

In February 2020, this calculation is performed as follows:

 

41,541 / 47,337 * 100 = 87.8%

 

Sub-national waiting times rates are published in the Monthly Activity Data File as columns ‘FirstTreatment6WeeksFinishedCourseRate’ and ‘FirstTreatment18WeeksFinishedCourseRate’.

The chart below shows that, nationally, waiting times measures have consistently been above the target, particularly the proportion seen within 6 weeks.

Figure 4: Percentage of referrals entering treatment within 6 weeks, March 2019 to February 2020, England
Download the data for this chart Figure 4: Percentage of referrals entering treatment within 6 weeks, March 2019 to February 2020, England

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

 

⁴See p16-17 of The Mandate: A mandate from the Government to NHS England: April 2015 to March 2016,

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