Psychiatry

(asked on 24th November 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Baroness Berger Portrait
Baroness Berger
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies patients who have dropped out of their treatment before completion in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 30th November 2015

The table below provides data on the number of people that did not complete a course of treatment under the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme from 2012/13 – 2014/15. Data is not available prior to 2012/13.



Referrals ending in the year

Referrals ending in the year that did not finish in a course of treatment

Proportion of ended referrals that did not finish in a course of treatment

2014/15

1,123,002

654,121

58.2%

2013/14

919,994

555,651

60.4%

2012/13

534,721

390,511

73.0%

IAPT: Proportion of referrals ending that did not complete a course of treatment as a proportion of all referrals ending, England, 2012/13 – 2014/15.

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre


Notes:

1. All referrals that had an end date in the year, regardless of when the referral opened. Some of these referrals may have begun in the preceding financial year. 2012/13 was the first year of reporting from the IAPT dataset, and therefore only those referrals received in the year are included. Referrals that predate this point are not included in the figures.



2. In order to finish a course of treatment, a referral must have ended in the year with at least two treatment appointments having been attended in the course of the referral. Referral received date and treatment appointment dates not necessarily in the year. Follow-up appointments do not count.

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