Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training places in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service there were in each of the last five years.
Alistair Burt
There were 756 training places commissioned for improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) programmes in 2014/15. In addition 509 trainees attended Child and Young People’s (CYP) IAPT courses in 2014/15.
The following table contains an aggregate of the number of training places that have been commissioned in each of the last four financial years for the IAPT programmes. Comparable information relating to the IAPT programmes is not held centrally for the 2011/12 financial year.
|
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
|
|
IAPT training places commissioned |
634 |
859 |
756 |
946 |
Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns
The following table details the number of trainees attending CYP IAPT courses per year of the programme in the last five years.
|
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
|
|
Trainee Therapist |
97 |
142 |
252 |
372 |
537 |
|
Supervisor |
30 |
45 |
88 |
86 |
113 |
|
Service Lead |
35 |
48 |
73 |
51 |
114 |
|
TOTAL |
162 |
235 |
413 |
509 |
764 |
Source: NHS England
