Mental Health Services

(asked on 24th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people referred to Access to Psychological Therapies services started treatment within (a) six weeks of referral and (b) 18 weeks of referral for each month since March 2020 for which figures are available.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 30th June 2021

The following table shows the percentage of adults aged 16 years and over who completed a course of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies treatment referred within six and 18 weeks of referral.

Month

Percentage of completers who were treated within six weeks from referral

Percentage of completers who were treated within 18 weeks from referral

March 2020

87.1%

97.7%

April 2020

86.2%

97.4%

May 2020

87.0%

97.6%

June 2020

86.5%

97.4%

July 2020

87.5%

97.6%

August 2020

89.1%

97.8%

September 2020

90.4%

97.8%

October 2020

91.1%

97.9%

November 2020

91.7%

98.1%

December 2020

92.7%

98.5%

January 2021

92.7%

98.7%

February 2021

92.3%

98.7%

March 2021

92.3%

98.8%

Source: NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Dataset, NHS Digital

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