PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Coronavirus (27 November 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to measure the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the level of demand for mental health services by recording covid-19 as a reason for using NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

NHS England and NHS Improvement have been working with NHS Digital, providers of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services and clinical experts to enable data related to the impact of COVID-19 for patients with common mental health disorders to be collected within the new iteration of the IAPT dataset.

This will allow us to collect data on the diagnosis of COVID-19 and whether there is evidence of long-COVID for the patient. This work is being finalised and is expected to be rolled out at the start of 2021.

Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
15 December 2020