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Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, March 2022 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot and Quarter 4 2021-22 data

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Data Quality Report - April 2022 Primary

Please note the Data Quality Report - April 2022 Primary file is not currently available. This is due to later submission window end date for the April primary data. The file will be made available as soon as available.
The April 2022 Primary Data Quality Report is now published, as of 22/06/2022.

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IAPT Quarterly Activity Data

Please also note that the Quarterly Activity Data files have have been amended and they no longer include any supressed values. The core data is unaffected and there is no impact to the Interactive Dashboard. The new structure of the quarterly data files will be used in all future quarterly publications.

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Measure removed

The following measure has been removed from the Employment Adviser file for March 2022. This is due to an inconsistency in the outputs, this issue is currently under investigation. 

EA140 Mean_WaitEmploymentSupport

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Activity

NHS Digital also publishes a wide range of information about activity in the IAPT programme within the month.

37.5% of all referrals that ended completed a course of treatment


The chart below shows the relative volumes of referrals that were received, had accessed services, ended, and finished a course of treatment in each month.


There is a degree of seasonality in these volumes, with slightly less activity around December. There is higher activity where there are more working days in the month.

It is important to note that these numbers are not based on the same group of referrals as each other. A referral that was received in March 2022 did not necessarily enter treatment in this month, and is less likely again to have ended in the month.

The number of referrals that finished a course of treatment is a subset of all referrals that ended in the month. In March 2022, 37.5% of referrals that ended had finished a course of IAPT treatment. Referrals can end having had different levels of contact with the service; these are shown in the chart below.


The chart below shows a further breakdown of the referrals that finished a course of treatment in Quarter 4 2021/22.


Each quarter, more detailed data are published about activity. The most recent quarterly data, Quarter 4 2021/22⁴, can be found at: http://digital.nhs.uk/pubs/iaptmar22.



⁴ Percentages for each variable will not sum to 100% as a subgroup was either not recorded or was recorded using an invalid code for some records.



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