Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services
Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, January 2023 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
The following measure has been removed from the Monthly Activity Data file for January 2023. This is due to an inconsistency in the outputs and is currently under investigation.
M1020 Count_ConsMediumChatRoomAppts
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The following measures have been added to the Monthly Activity Data file for January 2023 and all subsequent months.
M347 Mean_Wait_AssessmentDate_HighIntensityFirstDate
M348 Mean_Wait_AssessmentDate_LowIntensityFirstDate
M349 Mean_Wait_StepDown_LastHighIntensity_FirstLowIntensity
M350 Mean_Wait_StepUp_LastLowIntensity_FirstHighIntensity
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Further breakdowns by commissioning region have been added to all data files for January 2023 and all subsequent months
11 April 2023 16:08 PM
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 England and published in monthly reports.
This report summarises activity in the IAPT programme for January 2023². 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
163,719 new referrals were received in January 2023.
109,806 referrals had accessed IAPT in the month.
146,521 referrals ended (for any reason) in the month.
Waiting times
Of the 56,346 referrals that finished a course of treatment in January 2023, 90.1% waited less than 6 weeks and 98.3% waited less than 18 weeks to access IAPT services.
Outcomes
53,369 referrals finished a course of treatment in January 2023 having started at caseness³, of which 26,547 (49.7%) moved to recovery.
² All historical IAPT publications can be found at Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services - NHS Digital.
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 Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) data set reports - NHS Digital for details.
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