Mental Health Services

(asked on 16th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people in England referred for talking therapies for treatment of depression and anxiety in the second quarter of 2014-15 started their treatment within (a) six and (b) 18 weeks.


Answered by
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Norman Lamb
This question was answered on 23rd March 2015

We do not collect the data in the format requested. The following table shows the number of days from referral to first treatment within the reporting period Quarter 2 2014/15 for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services in England:

Total with first treatment in Quarter 2, 2014/15

Of which waited 28 days or less

Of which waited between 29 and 56 days

Of which waited between 57 and 90 days

Of which waited more than 90 days

England

191,532

122,909

35,151

14,497

18,975

We will be publishing national waiting times data for IAPT, reporting by six and 18 weeks for the first time on 21 April 2015.

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