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
Waiting Times
One of the stated targets of the IAPT programme is that for referrals finishing a course of treatment in the month, 75% access services within 6 weeks, and 95% within 18 weeks⁵. These are based on the waiting time between the referral date and the first attended treatment appointment.
90.1% of referrals waited less than 6 weeks to access IAPT services.
The chart below shows that, nationally, waiting times measures have consistently been above the target, particularly the proportion seen within 6 weeks.
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' at Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) data set reports - NHS Digital.
⁵ See p16-17 of The Mandate: A mandate from the Government to NHS England: April 2015 to March 2016, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/386221/NHS_England_Mandate.pdf
Last edited: 8 May 2024 1:08 pm