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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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.
90.2% 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
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