Mental Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have attended NHS mental health services in each of the last five years.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
The following table shows the available data from the Mental Health Services Data Set on the number of people accessing National Health Service mental health services over the last five years:
Year | Number of adults accessing community mental health services with serious mental illness who received two or more contacts | Number of children and young people accessing NHS-funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services who received at least one contact | Total number of people referred to NHS Talking Therapies that accessed a course of treatment (million) |
2020/21 | 476,160 | 566,762 | 1.02m |
2021/22 | 508,190 | 674,485 | 1.24m |
2022/23 | 508,210 | 709,559 | 1.22m |
2023/24 | 599,860 | 788,108 | 1.26m |
2024/25 | 667,220 | 840,063 | 1.21m |
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