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NHS Improvement Reveals Hole in IAPT’s Bucket

but the NHS has taken no steps to stop the haemorrhaging of clients and money.  A quarter (25.3%) of IAPT’s expenditure in 2017-2018, £75.58 million, was devoted to clients who were either not assessed or were not put in any care cluster (groups of diagnoses), according to the National Schedule of Reference costs see link https://www.dropbox.com/s/3xlu6tipaeguk2c/FOI%20IAPT%20data.xlsx?dl=0

which I acquired through a Freedom of Information Request. Curiously only 15.2% of IAPT’s expenditure, £45.68 million in 2017-2018 went on common mental health problems of low severity, whilst £176.86 million (58.99%) was spent on non-psychotic disorder.

For those with common mental health problems of low severity there were 214,863 high intensity contacts compared to 378,617 low intensity contacts. Thus low severity often appears to necessitate high intensity contacts, this raises questions about the reliability of ‘common mental mental health problems of low severity’ category.

For non-psychotic disorders 1.075 million high intensity contacts were delivered and almost as many low intensity contacts, 0.876 million. Assuming that the those categorised as a having a non psychotic disorder are more functionally impaired than those with common mental health problems of low severity, why are they having so many low intensity contacts? Sticking plasters for serious injury! It is time for the National Audit Office to restart its’ inquiry. 

 

Dr Mike Scott

 

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