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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Key Performance Indicators (IAPT KPIs) - Q3 2011-12 final and Q4 2011-12 provisional

Official statistics, Experimental statistics
Publication Date:
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Organisations, County, Primary Care Trusts
Date Range:
01 Oct 2011 to 31 Mar 2012

Summary

 

The IAPT programme is designed to support the NHS in delivering by 2014/2015:

  • Evidence-based psychological therapies, as approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), for people with depression and anxiety disorders;
  • Access to services and treatments by people experiencing depression and anxiety disorders from all communities within the local population;
  • Increased health and well-being, with at least 50% of those completing treatment moving to recovery and most experiencing a meaningful improvement in their condition;
  • Patient choice and high levels of satisfaction from people using services and their carers; Timely access, with people waiting no longer than locally agreed waiting times standards; Improved employment, benefit, and social inclusion status including help for people to retain employment, return to work, improve their vocational situation, and participate in the activities of daily living.

The vision for the IAPT programme over the next spending review cycle was set out in "Talking Therapies: A four-year plan of action2" and the IAPT KPIs will support measurement of the following objectives:

  • 3.2 million people will access IAPT, receiving brief advice or a course of therapy for depression or anxiety disorders;
  • 2.6 million patients will complete a course of treatment;
  • Up to 1.3 million (50 percent of those treated) will move to measurable recovery.

From quarter one of 2011/12 IAPT KPIs also support the NHS Operating Framework. Two IAPT indicators are included in the NHS Operating Framework to measure quarter-on-quarter improvement in:

I. Number of people entering treatment over the level of need, i.e. the number of people with depression and anxiety disorders in the population;

II. The number of people entering treatment over the number of people with depression and anxiety disorders referred for psychological therapies. The level of need in the general adult population is known as the rate of prevalence, defined by the Psychiatric Morbidity Survey. For common mental health conditions treated in IAPT services, it is expected that a minimum of 15 percent of those in need would willingly enter treatment if available.

 

Highlights

In Q4 January 2012 to March 2012:

246,545 people were referred for psychological therapies (an increase of 12.9 percent from Q3);

It is estimated that 6.1 million people suffer from anxiety and depression disorders in England suggesting that the access rate of people with anxiety or depression orders to IAPT services was 2.5 percent in quarter 4 (proportionally this is slightly increased from 2.1 percent during Q3);

  • 149,849 people entered treatment1 (an increase of 14.4 percent since Q3);
  • 86,052 people completed a minimum of two treatment contacts. Of these:
  • 10,494 were not at clinical caseness at the start of their treatment;
  • 75,558 were at clinical caseness at the start of their treatment, with 34,492 of this number (45.6 percent) 'moving to recovery' (proportionally this is slightly increased from 43.6 percent during Q3).
  • A total of 5,669 people moved off sick pay and benefits (an increase of 166 or 3.0 percent since Q3).

[1] The number of people who completed treatment in the quarter is not a direct subset of the number of people referred in the same quarter, as some may have been referred for treatment in a previous quarter

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