Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services
Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, February 2023 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
The following measure has been added to the Monthly Activity Data file for February 2023 and all subsequent months:
M351 - Mean_DaysWaitedBetweenTreatments
More information on this measure can be found in the IAPT v2.1 Metadata document.
9 May 2023 17:04 PM
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.
Key Facts
In February 2023 there were:
148,669 referrals to talking therapies
90.3% of referrals accessing IAPT within 6 weeks
99,169 referrals accessing IAPT
8.1 sessions of treatment on average per referral
52,670 referrals completed a course of treatment
50.2% referrals moved to recovery
66.8% of referrals finishing a course of treatment showed reliable improvement
44,163 Internet Enabled Therapy sessions took place
15,959 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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Last edited: 8 May 2024 1:08 pm