Mental Health Services
(asked on 25th February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which regions in England had the (a) longest and (b) shortest average waiting times for patients to access improving Access to Psychological Therapies services in each year since 2010.
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)¹ with the longest and shortest average waiting times² for referrals entering treatment³, by year, for 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/154 | ||||||
| 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | |||
| CCG | Average Waiting time (days) | CCG | Average Waiting time (days) | CCG | Average Waiting time (days) |
All England | All | 33 | All | 40 | All | 32 |
Shortest Average Wait (days) | NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG | 3 | NHS Tower Hamlets CCG | 7 | NHS Dudley CCG | 7 |
Longest Average Wait (days) | NHS Portsmouth CCG | 134 | NHS Scarborough and Ryedale CCG | 174 | NHS Blackpool CCG | 124 |
Notes:
1CCG is based on general practitioner (GP) Practice. Where GP Practice is not recorded, or cannot be assigned to a CCG, the referral is categorised as 'Unknown'.
2The mean was used as the average.
3In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment with a therapy type recorded) in the year.
4 The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset was created in 2012. Therefore, data from IAPT can only be provided for the financial years 2012/13 onwards.
Means have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
The CCGs with the shortest and longest average wait are listed irrespective of the volume of referrals in question.
Waiting time is measured by counting the number of days between a referral being received and the first treatment appointment.
Data source:
IAPT Dataset