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.
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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 |
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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 September 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
142,241 new referrals were received in September 2022.
95,023 referrals had accessed IAPT in the month.
142,288 referrals ended (for any reason) in the month.
Waiting times
Of the 57,029 referrals that finished a course of treatment in September 2022, 89.3% waited less than 6 weeks and 98.4% waited less than 18 weeks to access IAPT services.
Outcomes
53,881 referrals finished a course of treatment in September 2022 having started at caseness³, of which 26,829 (49.8%) 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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