Mental Health Services
(asked on 16th June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals made to mental health services in (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23 and (c) 2023-24 waited longer than 12 months between referral and second contact.
The following table shows the number of referrals received by Mental Health services that waited longer than 12 months between referral and second contact for the years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:
Year | Number of referrals |
2021/22 | 322,075 |
2022/23 | 394,179 |
2023/24 | 448,154 |
Source: Mental Health Services Data Set.
In addition, the following table shows the number of referrals received by NHS Talking Therapies that waited longer than 12 months between referral and second contact for the years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:
Year | Number of referrals |
2021/22 | 22,874 |
2022/23 | 20,520 |
2023/24 | 21,981 |
Source: NHS Talking Therapies.