Mental Health Services

(asked on 13th July 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Baroness Berger Portrait
Baroness Berger
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was to see a Person Centred Therapy Counselor in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency, (b) Liverpool City Region and (c) England in each year since 2010.

Answered by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford Portrait
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
This question was answered on 18th July 2016

The data are unavailable in the requested format. All therapies provided in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services have been counted as being relevant to "Person Centred Therapy Counsellor", due to the nature of the IAPT programme.

Average waiting times to enter treatment for referrals finishing a course of treatment in the year, England and selected clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), 2012-13, 2013-14, and 2014-15.

England

Numbers

Average waiting time (days)

CCG Code

CCG Name

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

England

30.7

39.5

35.1

01F

NHS Halton CCG

31.3

36.6

99.1

01J

NHS Knowsley CCG

127.3

151.3

85.7

99A

NHS Liverpool CCG

14.9

17.3

17.9

01T

NHS South Sefton CCG

28.2

24.4

24.1

01V

NHS Southport and Formby CCG

34.4

26.8

25.0

01X

NHS ST Helens CCG

41.1

40.1

86.7

12F

NHS Wirral CCG

53.3

49.6

56.1

Data source: IAPT, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).

Notes:

1. Waiting time refers to the time between the referral received date and the first attended treatment appointment.

2. A referral is classified as having finished a course of treatment in IAPT if it has ended having had at least two attended treatment appointments between the referral received date and the referral end date.

3. Note that for 2014-15, CCG is the recorded commissioner, unless this was not recorded or not a CCG, in which case the CCG is derived from the patient’s general practitioner (GP) practice or postcode. For 2013-14 and 2012-13, CCG is based on GP Practice. Where CCG and GP practice were not recorded and could not be assigned, the referral is categorised as 'Unknown'. A list of valid CCGs can be found on the HSCIC website at:

http://systems.hscic.gov.uk/data/ods/datadownloads/othernhs

4. Data for 2012-13 should be used with caution; as this was the first year of the IAPT dataset, coverage improved over the course of this year.

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