This statistical release is the annual report on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021. IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with anxiety or depression. The publication contains analyses on activity, waiting times and outcomes such as recovery in 2020-21. In addition, the report covers a range of demographic analyses including outcomes for patients of different ages, ethnic group and separately for ex-British Armed Forces personnel. This is the first annual publication of psychological therapies data since the transition into IAPT dataset version 2.0. This was a significant change to the structure of the underlying data. For further details about how this has impacted these analyses, see the Data Quality Statement page of this report, and also the Methodological Change Note available from https://digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports. NOTE: On 17 November 2022, the main csv, therapy role csv and therapy type csv were mainly updated to include some missing breakdowns and apply some further suppression where needed. Due to the move from v1.5 to v2.0 of the dataset part way through the year, the amended main csv file now also includes some v2.0 data that was previously missing for one measure (CountTherapyEndTreatment_EmploymentSupport). These changes do not affect any of the national estimates previously published.

This statistical release is the annual report on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme from 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020. IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with anxiety or depression. The publication contains analyses on activity, waiting times and outcomes such as recovery in 2019-20. In addition, the report covers a range of demographic analyses including outcomes for patients of different ages, ethnic group and separately for ex-British Armed Forces personnel. COVID-19 and the production of statistics Due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) disruption, it would seem that this has started to affect the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for IAPT March 2020 data. We are also starting to see some different patterns in the submitted data. For IAPT, there is a significant change in the rates for recovery and improvement in March 2020 compared to the last 12 months. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period. For the duration of the COVID-19 period, we are now doing some early reporting to help with monitoring of any impact using provisional IAPT data.

This statistical release is the annual report on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022. IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with anxiety or depression. The publication contains analyses on activity, waiting times and outcomes such as recovery in 2021-22. In addition, the report covers a range of demographic analyses including outcomes for patients of different ages, ethnic group and separately for ex-British Armed Forces personnel. This report also contains additional analysis for therapy-based outcomes in IAPT services. The attached outputs for this publication still refer to some old terminology i.e. 'started' or 'entered treatment', which map to the new terminology of 'accessing services' as presented on the publication pages. This will be updated for next year's annual report.