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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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.
89.3% 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 Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services - 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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