PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People (4 February 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for people under the age of 18 needing Tier 3 CAMHS to start treatment following an initial assessment in each (a) Care Commissioning Group area and (b) NHS trust area in the last 12 months.

Asked by:
Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat)

The information is not collected in the format requested. However, we have introduced two waiting times for children and young people: for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases, and for 56% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral. We are on target to meet these aims by 2020/21.

Quarterly data and trend indicators on these two waiting time targets is available through the Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard.

A national access and waiting times standard for wider child and adolescent mental health services has not yet been defined.

Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
10 February 2020