Key Facts
Published 31 March 2016
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All mental health and learning disability services
Provisional submissions for January 2016 were received from 78 mental health and learning disability service providers.
246,428 new referrals into these services took place during January 2016.
Within these services 1,462,057 referrals were open on 31 January 2016:
- Of these 1,458,279 had a recorded gender, from which 706,914 (48.5 per cent) were male and 751,365 (51.5 per cent) were female
- 1,461,014 of these referrals had a recorded age. 208,602 (14.3 per cent) were under the age of 18 and 920,667 (63.0 per cent) were aged 35 or over
Services for people with a suspected first episode of psychosis
Of the 246,428 new referrals into services 33,569 (13.6 per cent) had a primary reason for the referral recorded.
Referrals with a primary reason for referral of a suspected first episode of psychosis were received from 25 mental health service providers.
802 new referrals for a suspected first episode of psychosis were received into these services during January 2016.
80 of these referrals entered treatment during January 2016. Of these, 74 (92.5 per cent) entered treatment within two weeks of referral and six (7.5 per cent) waited more than two weeks to enter treatment.
329 of these referrals were waiting to enter treatment on 31 January 2016. Of these 122 had been waiting more than two weeks to enter treatment from the date they were originally referred. The remaining 207 were waiting two weeks or less on 31 January and so it is too early to determine if the access and waiting time standard has been exceeded.