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Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England November 2020 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
11 Feb 2021
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 Nov 2020 to 30 Nov 2020

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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

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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.

91.7% of referrals waited less than 6 weeks to enter treatment

Calculating Waiting Times

In November 2020, this calculation is performed as follows: 

 

(Count_FirstTreatment6WeeksFinishedCourseTreatment / Count_FinishedCourseTreatment) * 100

 

(48039 / 52385) * 100 = 91.7%

 

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 weeks, November 2019 to November 2020, England
Download the data for this chart Figure 3: Percentage of referrals entering treatment within 6 weeks, November 2019 to November 2020, 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.

 

 

5See p16-17 of The Mandate: A mandate from the Government to NHS England: April 2015 to March 2016, 

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