Health written question – answered at on 18 March 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people suffering with mental health problems were treated using cognitive behavioural therapy in the UK in 2013.
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme is one of the means by which people can access talking therapies, including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). We do not hold data centrally on the numbers of people accessing these therapies outside of the IAPT programme.
However, the number of attended1,2 IAPT appointments with a recorded therapy type of ‘cognitive behavioural therapy’ or ‘computerised cognitive behavioural therapy’ (CCBT) is as follows:
England | Number of attended appointments |
CBT | 476,245 |
CCBT | 31,961 |
1 As this was the first year of reporting from the IAPT dataset, only those appointments associated with referrals received in the year are included. Referrals that predate this point are not included in the figures. 2 Appointments must be attended, but could include direct (face to face) and indirect (telephone, web camera, talk type, email or sms) contact. Data Source: Table 3, Psychological Therapies, England; Annual Report on the use of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Services—2012/13 |
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