Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for children and young people to access (a) CAMHS and (b) other NHS mental health services was in (i) Basingstoke constituency, (ii) Hampshire and (ii) England in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows the waiting time, measured in the number of days, between referral and first contact for children and young people aged under 18 years old in England, from 2020/21 to 2023/24:
Year | Mean average waiting time between referral and first contact |
2020/21 | 75.3 |
2021/22 | 65.0 |
2022/23 | 69.7 |
2023/24 | 75.4 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset.
In addition, the following table shows the waiting time, measured in the number of days, between referral and first contact for children and young people aged under 18 years old, in the Basingstoke and Deane local authority district, from 2020/21 to 2023/24:
Year | Mean average waiting time between referral and first contact |
2020/21 | 138.9 |
2021/22 | 119.1 |
2022/23 | 132.6 |
2023/24 | 210.4 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset.
Finally, the following table shows the waiting time, measured in the number of days, between referral and first contact for children and young people aged under 18 years old, in the Hampshire county local authority, from 2020/21 to 2023/24:
Year | Mean average waiting time between referral and first contact |
2020/21 | 126.3 |
2021/22 | 124.0 |
2022/23 | 133.2 |
2023/24 | 186.6 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset.
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