Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services
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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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 Digital and published in monthly reports.
This report summarises activity in the IAPT programme for March 2022². 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
165,631 new referrals were received in March 2022.
113,423 referrals had accessed IAPT in the month.
159,369 referrals ended (for any reason) in the month.
Waiting times
Of the 59,797 referrals that finished a course of treatment in March 2022, 88.8% waited less than 6 weeks and 98.4% waited less than 18 weeks to access IAPT services.
Outcomes
56,354 referrals finished a course of treatment in March 2022 having started at caseness³, of which 28,753 (51%) moved to recovery.
¹ https://www.nice.org.uk/
² All historical IAPT publications can be found at http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports.
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 http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports for details.
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