Publications and Statistics - NHS England Digital

New name for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)

Following an extensive engagement process, NHS England national mental health team has recently announced a new name for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services: NHS Talking Therapies, accompanied by the following tagline: for anxiety and depression.

For further information about the name change, please visit the NHS England pages What’s in a name? NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression the new name for IAPT services.

The data set will continue to be referred to as ‘IAPT’ until the next uplift of the data set has received DAPB approval.

Publications

We make data available from the IAPT data set in the form of statistical reports covering activity, waiting times and patient outcomes such as recovery.

These reports are made available publicly and are published on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

Access IAPT reports.

Provider and commissioner extracts

Providers and commissioners of IAPT services can retrieve processed monthly extracts covering their own services and the patients they are responsible for.

These extracts are available following processing of the monthly data submissions on the Strategic Data Collection Service in the Cloud (SDCS Cloud).

Providers

Provider extracts contain data for their own services and patients.

Commissioners

Commissioner extracts will be filtered by Organisation Identifier (Code of Commissioner) and commissioners can only receive records where their NHS organisation code matches that supplied by the provider for the patient. The structure, format and content of this extract are similar to the provider's final extract, but the extract does not include patient identifiable data items.

Commissioner access is subject to approval by the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Data (IGARD). Commissioners should initially contact their CSU/DSCRO to obtain data.

Specifications for the Provider and Commissioner Extracts are contained in the Technical Output Specification and describe exactly what data are contained in the extracts.

Data Access Request Service

We can provide record-level extracts of IAPT data via our Data Access Request Service. This service is for customers with analytical requirements that are not already met through the published reports.