Mental Health Services: Lancashire
(asked on 27th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for talking therapies in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire.
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table. The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset contains information on referrals to IAPT services which provide talking therapies. Information is provided both for East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and for all eight Lancashire CCGs combined for the year 2013-14. East Lancashire CCG includes Pendle constituency and the CCG is the smallest geographical breakdown available.
Table 1: The number of referrals entering treatment1 in the year, with mean and median waiting times (days), for IAPT services in 2013-14. Data shown for East Lancashire CCG2 and for all eight Lancashire CCGs combined. | ||||
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Organisation name | Referrals entering treatment | Mean waiting time to first treatment appointment (days) | Median3 waiting time to first treatment appointment (days) | |
NHS East Lancashire CCG | 3,495 | 104.6 | 84 | |
Combined Lancashire CCGs | 15,635 | 89 | 56 | |
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Notes:
1In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment with a therapy type recorded) in the year.
2CCG is based on general practitioner (GP) Practice. Where GP Practice is not recorded, or cannot be assigned to a CCG, the referral is categorised as 'Unknown'.
3Medians have been rounded up to the nearest whole number.
Waiting time is measured by counting the number of days between a referral being received and the first treatment appointment. For 2013-14, the presence of a valid therapy type is used as an indicator of whether treatment was provided in the course of the appointment. |
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Entering treatment figures, except England totals, are rounded to the nearest 5.
It is generally advised that the median is used as the most reliable measure of average waiting time, as this accounts for any outliers in the data.
Lancashire CCGs are: East Lancashire CCG Lancashire North CCG West Lancashire CCG Blackburn with Darwen CCG Blackpool CCG Chorley and South Ribble CCG Fylde and Wyre CCG Greater Preston CCG
Source: [Health and Social Care Information Centre,Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Dataset] |
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