Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
(asked on 29th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of young people who were referred to child and adolescent mental health services waited (a) two weeks, (b) one month, (c) three months, (d) six months and (e) longer than six months for an assessment in the last 12 months.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the number of referrals of children and young people aged between zero and 17 years old in England in 2021/22, as well as the time waiting between referral and their second contact for the timescales available:
Number waiting between zero and four weeks | 137,943 |
Percentage waiting between zero and four weeks | 18.80% |
Number of waiting between four and 12 weeks | 62,037 |
Percentage waiting between four and 12 weeks | 8.50% |
Number waiting over 12 weeks | 38,855 |
Percentage waiting over 12 weeks | 5.30% |
Total number | 733,756 |
Source: NHS England
Note: These statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution.