Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 254-2026
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
For each of the services listed below, please provide the current:
• Total number of patients on the waiting list.
• Longest waiting time (in weeks).
• Number of patients waiting longer than 52 weeks.
Please provide this information for the following services, where provided by your Trust:
• Adult ADHD
• Adult Autism
• CAMHS
• CAMHS ADHD
• CAMHS Autism
• Adult Community Mental Health
• Psychology
• NHS Talking Therapies
• Eating Disorder Services (Adult and CAMHS)
• Perinatal Mental Health
• Memory Assessment Services
In addition, for each of the above services, please confirm:
• Whether the Trust currently considers the service to have a backlog requiring additional capacity or recovery support.
• Whether the Trust is actively undertaking, or planning to undertake, any backlog recovery initiatives within the next 12 months.
If a service is not provided by your Trust, please indicate this.
Our response:
| Service | Number of people on the caseload at 31 July 2026, without a first attended contact. | Of the number of people on the caseload at 31 July 2026, without a first attended contact, the longest wait from referral to 31 July 2026 in weeks. | Of the number of people on the caseload at 31 July 2026, without a first attended contact, the number of people waiting over 52 weeks from referral to 31 July 2026. | Please confirm, whether the Trust currently considers the service to have a backlog requiring additional capacity or recovery support. | Please confirm, whether the Trust is actively undertaking, or planning to undertake, any backlog recovery initiatives within the next 12 months. |
| Adult ADHD | 2723 | 304 | 2121 | Yes | Yes |
| Adult Autism | 819 | 257 | 632 | Yes | Yes |
| Adult community mental health (Recovery teams) | 182 | 27 | 0 | No | No |
| Psychology (Complex psychological interventions) | 60 | 46 | 0 | No | No |
| NHS Talking Therapies | 1326 | 27 | 0 | No | No |
| Eating disorder service (adults and children are one service) | 100 | 24 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| Perinatal | 63 | 9 | 0 | No | No |
| Memory assessment | 586 | 52 | <5 | Yes | Yes |
| CAMHS | In relation to your request for information on waiting times for Children’s Services, specifically Children’s Mental Health Services, we are currently unable to provide a validated waiting-time figure in the form requested.
A national methodology for measuring waiting times for these services is currently undergoing final validation. This methodology is required to provide a consistent definition of the points at which a waiting-time period starts and stops. In particular, it will determine: Until this methodology has been finalised and validated, applying a locally determined definition could produce figures that are inconsistent with the national approach and may not provide an accurate or meaningful representation of waiting times. We therefore do not currently have validated waiting-time measure for Children’s Mental Health Services that can reliably answer the request on this basis. The national methodology is currently expected to be finalised and available for implementation by March 2027. Once the methodology has been validated and implemented, we expect to be in a position to calculate waiting times consistently and to respond to future Freedom of Information requests for this information using the nationally agreed definitions. |
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Note: Values fewer than 5 have been suppressed to prevent identification of individuals.
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.