Mental Health Services: Staff

(asked on 16th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) couple therapists, (b) interpersonal therapists, (c) brief psychodynamic therapists and (d) counsellors for depression have been employed by NHS England in the Adult Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme in each year since 2010.


Answered by
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Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 19th October 2017

Information about the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) workforce is not available for every year since 2010.

The IAPT Workforce Census report provides information on the size and shape of the IAPT workforce in England. Data is available from 2012 onwards, with publications in 2012, 2014 and 2015.

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were created as a result of the Health and Social Care Act in 2012, and replaced primary care trusts on 1 April 2013. IAPT workforce figures by CCG were first available in the 2015 Adult IAPT Workforce Census.

The 2015 IAPT Workforce census includes information about cognitive behavioural therapists, couples therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy for depression, Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy and counselling. This can be found in Annex 3 of the 2015 report.

2015: NHS England/Health Education England (5 September 2016). 2015 Adult IAPT Workforce Census Report. Accessed at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/09/adult-iapt-workforce-census-report-15.pdf

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