Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists

(asked on 2nd November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for an appointment with an NHS mental health professional in each region in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 7th November 2022

The information requested is not held centrally as there is no single waiting time standard across all mental health services and age groups. Data for services against which a waiting time standard has been set is published on a quarterly basis. Waiting times for access to psychological therapies, early intervention in psychosis and children and young people eating disorder services is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-mental-health-dashboard/.

In February 2022, NHS England published the outcome of a consultation on the potential to introduce five new access and waiting time standards for mental health services. We are now working with NHS England on the next steps.

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