Mental Health Services: Slough
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients referred to mental health services were seen within the target waiting time in Slough constituency in the last 12 months.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows the latest available performance data on waiting times against the existing mental health waiting time standards for NHS Frimley, which covers the Slough constituency, for the latest available 12-month reporting period, from October 2023 to September 2024:
Service | Waiting time standard | Target | Performance against waiting time standard |
Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) | Proportion of referrals on the EIP pathway entering treatment within two weeks | 60% | 77% |
Children and Young People's Eating Disorders | Proportion of urgent referrals entering treatment within one week of referral | 95% | 81% |
Children and Young People's Eating Disorders | Proportion of routine referrals entering treatment within four weeks of referral | 95% | 81% |
NHS Talking Therapies | Proportion of referrals where the course of treatment finished and the person waited six weeks or less for first treatment contact | 75% | 94% |
NHS Talking Therapies | Proportion of referrals where the course of treatment finished and the person waited 18 weeks or less for first treatment contact | 95% | 100% |
Source: Mental Health Services and NHS Talking Therapies datasets.
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