Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 128-2023
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
For questions 1 and 2, we don not record our referral sources to such a level which allows us to extract which referrals come from alcohol services.
For questions 3 and 4 there were no cases with drug and alcohol issues recorded.
1. How many individuals were referred to IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies by drug services?
Years Number of Referrals
2018-19 0
2019-20 4
2020-21 17
2021-22 23
2022-23 19
Total 63
2. How many of those in question 1 were a. accepted and b. declined for support from IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies? Please break the information down by the following financial years.
Years Accepted Declined Other 2018-19 0 0 0
2019-20 0 2 2
2020-21 0 8 9
2021-22 2 7 14
2022-23 2 7 10
Total 4 24 35
3. In each of the following financial years, how many individuals with known drug and/or alcohol issues or dependence were referred to IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies by a GP?
There were no cases recorded for drug and/or alcohol issues or dependence under ICD10 codes F10-F19.
4. How many of those in question 3 were a. accepted and b. declined for support from IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies? Please break the information down by the following financial years.
As above there were no cases recorded for drug and/or alcohol issues or dependence under ICD10 codes F10-F19.
FOI Request
I am writing to request the following data under the Freedom of Information Act.
If all the below questions cannot be answered within the appropriate time limit, please can you answer the questions in order as below until the limit is reached.
1. In each of the following financial years, how many individuals were referred to IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies by drug and alcohol services?
i. 2018-19
ii. 2019-20
iii. 2020-21
iv. 2021-22
v. 2022-23
2. How many of those in question 2 were a. accepted and b. declined for support from IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies? Please break the information down by the following financial years.
i. 2018-19
ii. 2019-20
iii. 2020-21
iv. 2021-22
v. 2022-23
Please provide a figure for c. other, where relevant. For example, if the individual was referred but didn’t engage further with your service and was therefore neither accepted nor declined.
3. In each of the following financial years, how many individuals with known drug and/or alcohol issues or dependence were referred to IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies by a GP?
Where required for data collection, please take ‘drug and/or alcohol issues or dependence’ to mean the ICD10 codes F10-F19 inclusive.
If data for the number referred ‘by a GP’ is not available, please provide the number referred from primary care.
i. 2018-19
ii. 2019-20
iii. 2020-21
iv. 2021-22
v. 2022-23
4. How many of those in question 3 were a. accepted and b. declined for support from IAPT/NHS Talking Therapies? Please break the information down by the following financial years.
i. 2018-19
ii. 2019-20
iii. 2020-21
iv. 2021-22
v. 2022-23
Please provide a figure for c. other, where relevant. For example, if the individual was referred but didn’t engage further with your service and was therefore neither accepted nor declined.