IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Quarterly Reports

NHS Digital's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies dataset contains anonymized, record-level data from patient-administration systems across NHS and independent sector providers. A supplementary file provides recovery rates by provisional diagnosis at provider and commissioner levels. The data is updated quarterly, with a separate monthly publication for data quality measures.

Use Cases

• Analyzing therapy recovery rates based on provisional diagnosis data mentioned in the description
• Evaluating data quality trends across providers using the monthly quality measures publication
• Monitoring service delivery and patient access across NHS and independent sector organizations

Strengths

• Data includes records from both NHS and Independent Sector providers, suggesting broad coverage
• Record-level anonymized data allows for granular analysis while protecting patient privacy
• Regular quarterly and monthly publications provide structured, ongoing data streams

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks

Provenance

Source

NHS Digital

Collection Method

Regular return of anonymized record-level data from patient-administration systems of IAPT service providers

Time Range

Quarterly reports

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:23.958877; freshness should be verified

Geography

United Kingdom (UK)