Mental Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals made to mental health services in (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23 and (c) 2023-24 waited longer than 12 months between referral and second contact.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows the number of referrals received by Mental Health services that waited longer than 12 months between referral and second contact for the years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:
Year | Number of referrals |
2021/22 | 322,075 |
2022/23 | 394,179 |
2023/24 | 448,154 |
Source: Mental Health Services Data Set.
In addition, the following table shows the number of referrals received by NHS Talking Therapies that waited longer than 12 months between referral and second contact for the years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:
Year | Number of referrals |
2021/22 | 22,874 |
2022/23 | 20,520 |
2023/24 | 21,981 |
Source: NHS Talking Therapies.
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