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Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, August 2022 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
10 Nov 2022
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Boards

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Implementation of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs)

Please note: Due to the implementation of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), formally established across the NHS in England on 1 July 2022, the August data has now been updated to include the ICB / sub-ICB breakdowns.

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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% access services 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.

88.6% of referrals waited less than 6 weeks to access IAPT services.

Calculating Waiting Times

In August 2022, this calculation is performed as follows: 

(Count_FirstTreatment6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment / Count_FinishedCourseTreatment) * 100

(52,582 / 59,376) * 100 = 88.6%

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 accessing IAPT within 6 and 18 weeks, August 2021 to August 2022, England
Download the data for this chart Figure 3: Percentage of referrals accessing IAPT within 6 and 18 weeks, August 2021 to August 2022, 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  Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) data set reports - NHS Digital.

⁵ See 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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