Mental Health Services: Birmingham
(asked on 8th January 2015) - 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 therapy in Birmingham.
This question was answered on 13th January 2015
Information on the median waiting times for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in Birmingham for 2013-14 is shown in the following table.
| Number of referrals entering treatment | Median waiting time (days) |
NHS Birmingham and South Central CCG | 3,320 | 26 |
NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG | 5,135 | 25 |
NHS Birmingham Cross City CCG | 9,020 | 29 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), IAPT Dataset
Notes:
- It is not possible to separate Sandwell from NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG; as such, data for Sandwell is also included in this response
- The IAPT dataset contains information on referrals to IAPT services which provide talking therapies.
- Waiting time is measured by counting the number of days between a referral being received and the first treatment appointment. Currently, the presence of a valid therapy type is used as an indicator of whether treatment was provided in the course of the appointment.
- This data is based upon a count of referrals received by IAPT services, not distinct people. In order to be included in these figures, a referral must have had a first treatment appointment in the reporting period (1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014)