Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 116-2023
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
Please provide data on providers, volume and value for outsourcing and insourcing IAPT NHS Talking Therapies. services within your respective trust, board, or ICS for the financial years 2022-23, 2021-22 ,2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19. Please provide the following: a. name of the provider to whom is outsourced/insourced, b. the total value of the services provided/contract in £s., and b. total volume of appointments procured as # of appointments covered/completed under the agreement. Outsourced appointments were recorded as allocated therapist of XYLA and Dr Julian. Insourced appointments were recorded as any other therapist.
Financial Years
Appointment Type 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
Appts Attended 16,917 59,432 47,780 49,425 46,813
Appts Cancelled Patient 2,515 10,120 6,193 7,876 8,334
Appts Cancelled Provider 1,293 5,504 3,067 3,758 3,660
Appts DNA 1,476 10,209 6,175 7,486 8,005
Appts Attended 1,221 3,517 5,046
Appts Cancelled Patient 80 536 517
Appts Cancelled Provider 40 167 270
Appts DNA 68 230 484
Name of provider Type of arrangement Data 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
Dr Julian Outsourced Value in £ 0 0 54,216 345,474 218,298
Dr Julian Outsourced Volume in # of appointments 10 20 25 40 90
Xyla Outsourced Value in £ . . . . 215,592
Xyla Outsourced Volume in # of appointments . . . . .
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Provider X Insourced Volume in # of appointments . . . . .
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FOI Request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information around the procurement of services under the NHS Talking Therapies, formerly IAPT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies. program. Please provide data on providers, volume and value for outsourcing and insourcing IAPT NHS Talking Therapies. services within your respective trust, board, or ICS for the financial years 2022-23, 2021-22 ,2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19. Please provide the following: a. name of the provider to whom is outsourced/insourced, b. the total value of the services provided/contract in £s., and b. total volume of appointments procured as # of appointments covered/completed under the agreement. We have defined outsourcing as an external third party. provider that has been contracted by your trust, health board or ICB to deliver therapy, and insourcing as internal bodies within your trust, health board or ICB delivering the required therapy. Services that we considered included under NHS Talking Therapies / IAPT are the following: o Guided self-help based on cognitive behavioural therapy principles o Cognitive behavioural therapy CBT. o Interpersonal therapy IPT. o Couple therapy for depression CTfD. or behavioural couple therapy BCT. o Dynamic interpersonal therapy DIT. o Counselling for depression PCE-CfD.. o Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy MBCT. o Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy TfCBT. o Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing EDMR. Please provide the data requested by this FOI in the attached Excel template where you can fill in the nessesary information. If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.