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.
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