Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 050-2023
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below:
Unfortunately, the Trust is not able to provide the requested data at the current time.
This is because there is no nationally agreed definition for the start of treatment and
therefore we are unable to capture this on the clinical system. The start of treatment
varies between services and patients and could be at the 1st contact, 2nd contact or a
contact later in the pathway. We also do not capture on the clinical system whether a
patient is waiting for a diagnosis.
FOI Request
My request concerns your NHS mental health services. Please provide the following information as a month-by-month breakdown each month from 1 November 2018 to 1 November 2022.
On the first day of each month, how many people were on the waiting list for the following:
diagnosis from your NHS Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services CYPMHS.?
treatment from your NHS Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services CYPMHS.?
diagnosis from your NHS adult mental health services?
treatment from your NHS adult mental health services?
Of those, how many were - at that time - waiting for:
3 months?
6 months?
12 months?
more than 12 months?