Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people being treated by mindfulness-based therapies approved by NICE in the most recent period for which figures are available.

In 2018/19, 3,957 Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) referrals that finished a course of treatment included at least one attended mindfulness appointment.

Source: IAPT dataset, NHS Digital

Note:

To finish a course of treatment with at least one attended mindfulness appointment, a referral must have ended in the year with at least two treatment appointments having been attended during the referral and at least one of these appointments must have a recorded therapy type of mindfulness.