Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services
Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, September 2022 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot and Quarter 2 2022-23 data
Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Implementation of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs)
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) were formally established across the NHS in England on 1 September 2022, with the introduction of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs), and abolition of CCGs. For more information on the change and the impact on September's publication, please see the relevant section in the Overview page.
Note NHS Digital expects July and August data to be updated with the ICB/sub-ICB breakdowns by the end of January 2023.
8 December 2022 09:30 AM
First Treatment will now be referred to as 'Accessing Services'
Note: The measures that previously referred to First Treatment will refer to Accessing Services going forward. The impacted measures are in September monthly and quarterly activity data files, as well as the key measures timeseries data file. The change in naming convention does not impact the data itself.
The list of measures and corresponding new names are given below:
| Measure ID | New measure name |
| M031 | Count_AccessingServices |
| M032 | Count_AccessingServices28days |
| M033 | Count_AccessingServices29to56days |
| M034 | Count_AccessingServices57to90days |
| M035 | Count_AccessingServicesOver90days |
| M036 | Count_AccessingServices6Weeks |
| M037 | Count_AccessingServices18Weeks |
| M052 | Count_AccessingServices6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment |
| M053 | Percentage_AccessingServices6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment |
| M054 | Count_AccessingServices18WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment |
| M055 | Percentage_AccessingServices18WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment |
8 December 2022 00:00 AM
Summary
This statistical release makes available the most recent Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) monthly data, including activity, waiting times, and outcomes such as recovery.
IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with depression or anxiety. This release also includes experimental statistics from the IAPT Employment Adviser Pilot.
Due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) disruption, it would seem that this is affecting the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We are also seeing some different patterns in submitted data. For IAPT, whilst the number of submitters remains unchanged, there is a significant change in the rates for recovery and improvement since pre-Covid-19 months.
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Note: Corrections have been made to the M110 (Count_CBTAppts) and M1020 (Count_ConsMediumChatRoomAppts) variables in the Monthly Activity Data file for April 2022 through to December 2022. In addition, Commissioning Region breakdowns have been added to the IAPT Monthly Activity Data File.
Highlights
Establishment of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) / Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs) and abolition of CCGs and STPs as of July 2022
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) were formally established across the NHS in England on 1 July 2022, with the introduction of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs), and abolition of CCGs.
Further information around the introduction of ICBs and ICPs is available via the relevant Organisation Data Service (ODS) page here.
The derivations necessary to support reporting under the new commissioning structures are now completed. As a result, the September 2022 data released as part of this publication includes the ICB / sub-ICB breakdowns and they will be part of the publications going forward. The July and August data will be re-released to include the relevant breakdowns.
Considerations, caveats and known issues relating to individual measures published in this series can be found in the NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) metadata document.
Key Facts
In September 2022 there were:
142,241 referrals to talking therapies
89.3% of referrals accessing IAPT within 6 weeks
95,023 referrals accessing IAPT
8.1 sessions of treatment on average per referral
57,029 referrals completed a course of treatment
49.8% referrals moved to recovery
66.5% of referrals finishing a course of treatment showed reliable improvement
55,019 Internet Enabled Therapy sessions took place
15,017 referrals with an integrated care contact
Interactive Dashboard Quarter 2 2022/23
Please note that these numbers reflect activity in the month and are not all based on the same group of referrals.
The proportion of referrals starting treatment within 6 weeks, mean treatment session, and the recovery rate are based on referrals completing a course of IAPT treatment in the month.
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