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Psychological Therapies, Annual report on the use of IAPT services, 2020-21

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:: 25 Nov 2021
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: NHS Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Regions, Ambulance Trusts, Provider
Date Range:: 01 Apr 2020 to 31 Mar 2021

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Methodology

Therapy-Based Outcomes, Long Term Conditions and Internet Enabled Therapies.

Please note that this publication has been updated to include additional data for Therapy-Based Outcomes.

Previously published data is unaffected, and the new files and tables containing this data are separate from the existing Data Files.

New data has also been included for the first time for Long Term Conditions and Internet Enabled Therapies.

These additions only include data from IAPT v.2.0 which was only submitted up to March 2021, and the relevant new data files have been added to the existing zipped set of CSV files titled 'Data Files'.

8 March 2022 09:30 AM

A correction has been made to this publication on 23/04/2024. These amendments relate to the following measures:

Mean_ContactTimeIETReferral
Percentage_IntergratedAppointments
Percentage_IntegratedAppointmentsFCT

These measures are published in the "psych-ther-ann-rep-csv-2020-21-iet-ltc-v2.csv" file, all measures have now been corrected. NHS England apologises for any inconvenience caused.

23 April 2024 09:03 AM

Summary

This statistical release is the annual report on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021. IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with anxiety or depression.

The publication contains analyses on activity, waiting times and outcomes such as recovery in 2020-21. In addition, the report covers a range of demographic analyses including outcomes for patients of different ages, ethnic group and separately for ex-British Armed Forces personnel.

This is the first annual publication of psychological therapies data since the transition into IAPT dataset version 2.0. This was a significant change to the structure of the underlying data. For further details about how this has impacted these analyses, see the Data Quality Statement page of this report, and also the Methodological Change Note available from https://digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports.

NOTE: On 17 November 2022, the main csv, therapy role csv and therapy type csv were mainly updated to include some missing breakdowns and apply some further suppression where needed. Due to the move from v1.5 to v2.0 of the dataset part way through the year, the amended main csv file now also includes some v2.0 data that was previously missing for one measure (CountTherapyEndTreatment_EmploymentSupport). These changes do not affect any of the national estimates previously published.

1.46 million referrals to talking therapies

down 14% from 1.69 million in 2019-20

90% accessed IAPT services within 6 weeks

up 2.6 percentage points from 87.4% in 2019-20

1.02 million referrals accessed IAPT services

down 12.2% from 1.17 million in 2019-20

7.5 sessions of treatment on average

up from 6.9 sessions in 2019-20

634,649 referrals completed course of treatment

up 4.7% from 606,192 in 2019-20

51.4% referrals moved to recovery

up 0.3 percentage points from 51.1% in 2019-20

Annual Interactive Dashboard 2020-21

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Therapy-Based Outcomes Interactive Dashboard 2020-21

Click here to access the Therapy-Based Outcomes Analysis Interactive Dashboard

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Please note that that these numbers reflect activity in the year and are not all based on the same group of referrals.

The proportion of referrals starting treatment within 6 weeks, mean treatment session, and the recovery rate are based on referrals completing a course of IAPT treatment in the year.