Mental Health Services
(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of people using community mental health services are receiving psychological therapy.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 8th September 2023
Information derived from the mental health services dataset shows that 9.9 per cent. of people referred to community mental health services with a contact in the period from August 2021 to July 2022 were referred to psychological therapy with a contact in the same period. In some cases, the same person may have had more than one referral within this period.