Mental Health Services: Nottinghamshire

(asked on 22nd July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) availability and (b) waiting times for therapeutic services for mental health conditions in Nottinghamshire.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 25th July 2019

Information on the availability of therapeutic services for mental health conditions delivered through the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme in Nottinghamshire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)1 is not collected.

Information on waiting times for such services in the Nottinghamshire CCGs in 2019 is in the following table.

Month

Number of referrals finishing a course of treatment

Mean wait to enter treatment2 (days)

Percentage of finishing referrals3 seen within 6 weeks

January 2019

1,345

24.3

83

February 2019

1,290

24.8

81

March 2019

1,510

25.3

79

April 2019

1,280

27.4

76

Source: NHS Digital, IAPT dataset

Notes:

1 NHS Bassetlaw CCG, NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG, NHS Newark and Sherwood CCG, NHS Nottingham City CCG, NHS Nottingham North and East CCG, NHS Nottingham West CCG and NHS Rushcliffe CCG.

2 Waiting time to enter treatment is calculated as the number of days between the referral received date and the first attended treatment appointment. Referral received date and the first treatment appointment dates do not necessarily occur in the same month.

3 In order to finish a course of treatment, a referral must have ended in the month with at least two treatment appointments having been attended in the course of the referral.

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