Mental Health Services
(asked on 4th September 2017) - 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 (a) a mental health assessment and (b) mental health treatment in (i) England and (ii) York.
This question was answered on 12th September 2017
Waiting times for mental health treatment referrals are available where the relevant mental health pathway has been defined. This currently relates to referrals on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme and the Early Intervention in Psychosis pathway.
The latest available data for these services for England and NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Groups are shown in tables 1 to 3 in the attached document.