Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression dataset

Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression dataset#

Last modified: 03 Jul 2025

People treated in England for depression and anxiety disorders under the NHS Talking Therapies Programme.

1. Summary#

This dataset will shortly be renamed the NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression Dataset. The dataset collects information about adults in England who receive NHS-funded treatment for depression and anxiety disorders under the NHS Talking Therapies programme. Conditions treated include agoraphobia, body dysmorphic disorder, depression, generalised anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder and a wide range of specific phobias.

Dataset Descriptor Dataset-specific Information
Name of Dataset in TRE NHSE_IAPT
Citation (APA) Data Services, NHS England (NHSE) . (2024). NHS England: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT). UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00035-03
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Series NHS England
Owner NHS England, Office for National Statistics and Department of Health and Social Care
Temporal Coverage in the TRE 04/2012 - ongoing
Geographical Coverage England
Participant Count 26601
Number of Variables N/A - Dataset comprises of multiple auxiliary tables
Number of Observations N/A - Dataset comprises of multiple auxiliary tables
Key Link https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/improving-access-to-psychological-therapies-data-set/improving-access-to-psychological-therapies-data-set-reports
Keywords Mental health, Talking therapies
Latest Extract Date 2024-04-26
Specific Restrictions to Data Use None
Build a Data Request https://explore.ukllc.ac.uk/

2. Metrics#

Table 2: Please note, individual cohort counts of less than 10 are suppressed to 0 and are therefore excluded from total participant counts for datasets

3. Version History#

Version Number 2 3
Name in TRE NHSE_IAPT NHSE_IAPT
Version Date 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024
Number of Variables 192 226
Number of Rows 58680 117207
DOI 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00035-02 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00035-03

4. Documentation#

We are currently building a documentation storage system, which will host relevant and useful documents related to datasets, groupings, and studies themselves. Relevant documentation for this particular dataset will go here.

5. Useful Syntax#

Below we will include syntax that may be helpful to other researchers in the UK LLC TRE. For longer scripts, we will include a snippet of the code plus a link to Git where you can find the full script