Mental Health Services
(asked on 26th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for talking therapies in (a) Gillingham and Rainham constituency, (b) Medway and (c) England.
Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) commissions the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service for Medway and the constituency of Gillingham and Rainham.
The following table shows the mean and median waiting time for IAPT services across the Medway (CCG) and England.
| Mean waiting time (days) | Median waiting time (days) |
England | 39.5 | 21 |
NHS Medway CCG | 29.0 | 19 |
Note: Medians have been rounded up to the nearest whole number.
Data source: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Dataset
Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020 sets out action the Government is taking to provide better access to mental health services within the next year, including a national waiting time standard for talking therapies.
£40 m in additional funding has been identified to enable change in the current financial year, and a further £80 million will be freed up for 2015-16 to support implementation of waiting times in mental health services.