Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 6227 Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of people who (a) completed treatment and (b) waited less than 6 weeks for their first appointment for talking therapies in (i) Newcastle upon Tyne and (ii) North Tyneside in July 2024.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows the number of completed treatments and waiting times for a first appointment for Talking Therapies in the nearest equivalent areas, by sub integrated care board area, of NHS Newcastle Gateshead and NHS North Tyneside, in July 2024:
| NHS Newcastle Gateshead | NHS North Tyneside |
Referrals discharged during period | 1,315 | 430 |
Referrals discharged after completing at least two treatments | 625 | 195 |
Percentage of referrals discharged after completing at least two treatments | 47% | 45% |
Patient accessing their first treatment | 915 | 400 |
Patients accessing their first treatment in less than six weeks | 910 | 375 |
Percentage of patients accessing their first treatment in less than six weeks | 99% | 94% |
Source: NHS Talking Therapies Monthly Statistics, NHS England.
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