Depressive Illnesses
(asked on 3rd December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2013 to Question 139508, what assessment of the variation and uptake of mindfulness-based interventions for repeat episode depression his Department has made using the Innovation Scoreboard.
No assessment has been made of the variation and uptake of mindfulness based interventions for repeat episode depression using the Innovation Scorecard.
We do not centrally hold information on the number of mindfulness interventions that were prescribed through the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme in each month since July 2014.
The table below shows the number of open referrals with an attended treatment appointment, and the number of open referrals with an attended treatment appointment listing mindfulness as one of the therapy types for July and August 2014.
Month | Count of open referrals in the period with an attended treatment appointment within the referral
| Count of open referrals in the period with an attended treatment appointment listing mindfulness as one of the therapy types
|
July 2014 | 253,213
| 578 |
August 2014 | 244,861
| 814 |
Source: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Dataset
The table below shows the number of attended treatment appointments listing mindfulness as one of the therapy types for July and August 2014.
Month | Count of attended treatment appointments in the period. | Count of attended treatment appointments in the period listing mindfulness as one the therapy types.
|
July 2014 | 304,997
| 1,002
|
August 2014 | 253,427
| 747
|
Source: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Dataset