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Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England April 2021 Final including reports on the IAPT pilots

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
20 Jul 2021
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Boards
Date Range:
01 Apr 2021 to 30 Apr 2021

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Data resubmission

Please note that this publication was updated on 16th December 2021 to include revised data for some providers. This is following a one off resubmission exercise that took place in August 2021 and covered the data period September 2020 to May 2021 inclusive.

16 December 2021 09:30 AM

CCG mergers

An issue has been identified in the CCG data for April 2021. This is a result of the recent CCG mergers, which came into effect in April 2021. Some providers have submitted activity under the old (pre-April 2021) CCG codes, and this activity has been mapped to ‘unknown CCG code’, instead of the correct new CCG code.

This is being reviewed and corrected data will be published when it is available.

6 August 2021 16:00 PM

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Waiting Times

One of the stated targets of the IAPT programme is that for referrals finishing a course of treatment in the month, 75% enter treatment within 6 weeks, and 95% within 18 weeks5. These are based on the waiting time between the referral date and the first attended treatment appointment.

92.8% of referrals waited less than 6 weeks to enter treatment

Calculating Waiting Times

In April 2021, this calculation is performed as follows: 

 

(Count_FirstTreatment6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment / Count_FinishedCourseTreatment) * 100

 

(55,785 / 60,110) * 100 = 92.8%

 

Sub-national waiting times rates are published in the Monthly Activity Data File as columns ‘Percentage_FirstTreatment6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment’ and ‘Percentage_FirstTreatment18WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment’.

The chart below shows that, nationally, waiting times measures have consistently been above the target, particularly the proportion seen within 6 weeks.

Figure 3: Percentage of referrals entering treatment within 6 and 18 weeks, April 2020 to April 2021, England
Download the data for this chart Figure 3: Percentage of referrals entering treatment within 6 and 18 weeks, April 2020 to April 2021, England

For an explanation of the terms used and further information about how measures are calculated in IAPT see the 'Guide to IAPT data and publications' at  www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports.

 

 

5See p16-17 of The Mandate: A mandate from the Government to NHS England: April 2015 to March 2016, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/386221/NHS_England_Mandate.pdf

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