Mental Health Services

(asked on 7th November 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Jonathan Gullis Portrait
Jonathan Gullis
(Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people accessed talking therapies each year from 2010 and 2022.

Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
This question was answered on 13th November 2023

The following table shows the number of patient referrals who accessed talking therapies each year in England from 2012/13 to 2012/22:

Year

Accessed Services

2012/13

434,247

2013/14

709,117

2014/15

815,665

2015/16

953,522

2016/17

965,379

2017/18

1,009,035

2018/19

1,092,296

2019/20

1,165,653

2020/21

1,024,014

2021/22

1,244,386

Source: IAPT dataset, NHS England

Notes:

  1. Data is not available prior to 2012/13.
  2. NHS Talking Therapies data are given as a count of patient referrals not patients, as a patient may have more than one referral in a year.
  3. A referral has accessed services when the patient has had their first attended, treatment appointment or an Internet Enabled Therapy log has been recorded for them.
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