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

Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, October 2021 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:: 18 Jan 2022
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 Oct 2020 to 31 Oct 2021

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Introduction

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.

Please note the timeseries data in this publication was updated on 11 March 2022 to include revised data, for some providers, for the period September 2020 to May 2021. The core data for October 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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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 experimental statistics from the IAPT Employment Adviser Pilot.

Due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) disruption, it would seem that this is affecting the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We are also seeing some different patterns in submitted data. For IAPT, whilst the number of submitters remains unchanged, there is a significant change in the rates for recovery and improvement since pre-Covid-19 months.

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Key Facts

In October 2021 there were:

152,003 referrals to talking therapies

91.2% of referrals accessing IAPT within 6 weeks

102,990 referrals accessing IAPT

7.9 sessions of treatment on average per referral

53,776 referrals completed a course of treatment

49.3% of referrals moved to recovery

66.1% of referrals showed reliable improvement

53,299 Internet Enabled Therapy sessions took place

16,525 referrals with an integrated care contact

Interactive Dashboard October 2021

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Please note that these numbers reflect activity in the month and are not all based on the same group of referrals.

The proportion of referrals accessing treatment within 6 weeks, mean treatment session, and any rates are based on referrals completing a course of IAPT treatment in the month.