PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists (13 April 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of waiting time for patients to see (a) psychological wellbeing practitioners, (b) cognitive behavioural therapists, (c) councillors, (d) psychotherapists and (e) psychologists has been in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

Data is not available for waiting times by type of healthcare professional.

The dataset supporting the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme does not report on the numbers of referrals still waiting to enter treatment, however it does provide the number of referrals waiting to enter treatment by waiting times breakdowns as follows: 28 days or less, between 29 and 56 days, between 57 and 90 days, more than 90 days, less than six weeks, and less than 18 weeks (i.e. the number of referrals waiting these periods for treatment).

Answered by:
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative)
21 April 2017