Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department has on the average waiting time for young people to receive a first appointment for child and adolescent mental health services in (a) South Cumbria, (b) Lancashire and (c) North Cumbria in the last six months.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows the mean and median average waiting times between referral and first contact for children and young people aged under 18 years old, in the nearest equivalent local authority areas, for April to September 2024:
Local authority area | Mean average number of days between referral and first contact | Median average number of days between referral and first contact |
Lancashire | 76.4 | 12 |
Cumberland | 90.3 | 28 |
Westmorland and Furness | 53.6 | 9 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset, NHS England.
This is based on referrals that have a contact and does not include those that are still waiting.
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