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Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, June 2022 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
8 Sep 2022
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Boards

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The following measure has been removed from the Monthly Activity Data file for June 2022. This is due to an inconsistency in the outputs and is currently under investigation.

      M237 Count_OffSickPay

 

8 September 2022 00:00 AM

Corrections have been made to the M110 and M1020 variables in the Monthly Activity Data file for April 2022 through to December 2022.

In addition, Commissioning Region breakdowns have been retrospectively added.

24 May 2023 12:00 PM

For some of the outcome variables (M191, M193, M204, M285) for a few of the providers (RX2, RV5CG, RV5CK), the counts have been very slightly updated.   This is due to a missed update during a previous re-run of the data.

Further, the counts for Provider DA201 have been moved from "InvalidCode" to "14L".

24 May 2023 12:00 PM

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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.

88.9% of referrals waited less than 6 weeks to access IAPT services.

Calculating Waiting Times

"In June 2022, this calculation is performed as follows: 

(Count_FirstTreatment6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment / Count_FinishedCourseTreatment) * 100

(49,911 / 56,166) * 100 = 88.9%"

Sub-national waiting times rates are published in the Monthly Activity Data File as columns ‘Percentage_FirstTreatment6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment’ and ‘Percentage_FirstTreatment18WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment’.

The chart below shows that, nationally, waiting times measures have consistently been above the target, particularly the proportion seen within 6 weeks.

Figure 3: Percentage of referrals accessing IAPT within 6 and 18 weeks, June 2021 to June 2022, England
Download the data for this chart Figure 3: Percentage of referrals accessing IAPT within 6 and 18 weeks, June 2021 to June 2022, England

"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

Last edited: 2 October 2023 12:49 pm

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