Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
(asked on 6th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients waited over (a) 28, (b) 62 and (c) 90 days between their first and second appointment as part of treatment from the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme in the last year.
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 for National Health Service talking therapies in England (formerly known as improving access to psychological therapies), as well as the waiting times for those referrals and the percentage of all referrals with first and second treatment in 2021/22. Note that some patients may have had more than one referral during that period.
Waiting time | Count of referrals | Percentage of all referrals with first and second treatment in 2021/22 |
Over 28 days | 284,832 | 47.8 |
Over 56 days1 | 151,810 | 25.5 |
Over 90 days | 76,649 | 12.9 |
All referrals with a first and second treatment in the year | 595,607 | 100 |
Source: NHS England - Psychological Therapies, Annual report on the use of IAPT services, 2021/22
1 First to Second treatment waiting times were not available for over 62 days. The 56-day threshold has been used instead.