Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services
Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, March 2023 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot and Quarter 4 2022-23 data
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
In this month’s publication we have published additional data files relating to activity recorded in the April 2023 primary submission window. These files are intended to be sources of additional information and not to replace the regular monthly publication using Final data. A publication using April Final data will be released as normal next month. The additional files included in this month’s publication are:
IAPT Monthly Activity Data File – April 2023 Primary ("iapt_month_apr_2023_activity_primary.csv")
Report on Employment Adviser IAPT services pilot – Primary Data File, April 2023 ("iapt_month_apr_2023_ea_primary.csv”)
These files can be downloaded from the Resources section at the bottom of the page.
Please note that providers not submitting data prior to the close of the Primary window (25th May 2023) will not have data included in the April Primary files.
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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 England and published in monthly reports.
This report summarises activity in the IAPT programme for March 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
167,407 new referrals were received in March 2023.
111,279 referrals had accessed IAPT in the month.
160,897 referrals ended (for any reason) in the month.
Waiting times
Of the 60,818 referrals that finished a course of treatment in March 2023, 90.2% waited less than 6 weeks and 98.4% waited less than 18 weeks to access IAPT services.
Outcomes
57,354 referrals finished a course of treatment in March 2023 having started at caseness³, of which 29,351 (51.2%) moved to recovery.
¹ https://www.nice.org.uk/
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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