Publication, Part of Psychological Therapies, Reports on the use of IAPT services

Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England July 2019 Final including reports on the IAPT pilots

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:: 10 Oct 2019
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, GP practices, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts
Date Range:: 01 Jul 2019 to 31 Jul 2019

Summary

This statistical release makes available the most recent Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) monthly data, including activity, waiting times, and outcomes such as recovery.

IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with depression or anxiety.

This release also includes reports from the IAPT integrated health pilot and the IAPT Employment Adviser pilot. An update has also been added to the Annual report on the use of IAPT services 2018-19 to include Outcome by Therapy Type. This can be accessed from the Related Links section.

This publication includes a new report showing a monthly time series for key IAPT data measures. This data is also available to view in the IAPT Monthly Interactive Dashboard.

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In July 2019 there were:

145,159 referrals to talking therapies

85.7% started treatment within 6 weeks

106,294 referrals started treatment

6.9 sessions of treatment on average

58,573 referrals completed a course of treatment

51.4% referrals moved to recovery

Interactive Dashboard July 2019

Click here to access the IAPT Monthly Interactive Dashboard

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Please note that that these numbers reflect activity in the month 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 month.