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Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, August 2021 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisors Pilot

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
11 Nov 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 Aug 2021 to 31 Aug 2021

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Monthly Time Series for Key Measures

An issue has been identified in the CCG data for April and May 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.

Please note the timeseries data in this publication was updated on 07 March 2022 to include revised data, for some providers, for the period September 2020 to May 2021. The core data for August 2021 is unaffected. 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.

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IAPT Enter Treatment Rolling Quarter Report

An issue has been identified with the data in the IAPT Enter Treatment Rolling Quarter Report. This issue is being investigated and the file will be made available as soon as possible.

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Measures removed

The following measures have been removed from the Monthly Activity file for August 2021.
M203    Count_ADSMFinishedTreatment
M204    Count_AppropriatePairedADSM
M205    Percentage_AppropriatePairedADSM

This is due to an inconsistency in the outputs, this issue is currently under investigation. 

Please note the IAPT Monthly Activity Data File and the Report on Employment Adviser IAPT services pilot file in this publication were updated on 14 April 2022 to include revised data for the measures that were previously removed for inconsistency in the outputs. The core data for August 2021 is unaffected.

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Activity

NHS Digital also publishes a wide range of information about activity in the IAPT programme within the month.

40.3% of all referrals that ended completed a course of treatment

The chart below shows the relative volumes of referrals that were received, had accessed services, ended, and finished a course of treatment in each month.

Figure 1: Number of referrals received, accessed services, ended, and finished a course of treatment, August 2020 to August 2021, England
Download the data for this chart Figure 1: Number of referrals received, accessed services, ended, and finished a course of treatment, August 2020 to August 2021, England

There is a degree of seasonality in these volumes, with slightly less activity around December. There is higher activity where there are more working days in the month.

It is important to note that these numbers are not based on the same group of referrals as each other. A referral that was received in August 2021 did not necessarily access services in this month, and is less likely again to have ended in the month.


The number of referrals that finished a course of treatment is a subset of all referrals that ended in the month. In August 2021, 40.3% of referrals that ended had finished a course of IAPT treatment. Referrals can end having had different levels of contact with the service; these are shown in the chart below.

Figure 2: Number of referrals that ended in August 2021 by level of contact with the service, England
Download the data for this chart Figure 2: Number of referrals that ended in August 2021 by level of contact with the service, England

Each quarter, more detailed data are published about activity. The most recent quarterly data, Quarter 1 2021/22⁴, can be found at: http://digital.nhs.uk/pubs/iaptjun21.


⁴ Percentages for each variable will not sum to 100% as a subgroup was either not recorded or was recorded using an invalid code for some records.

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