Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression dataset

Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression dataset#

Last modified: 18 Aug 2025

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

1. Summary#

The Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression 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. The dataset was previously called the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset.

Dataset Descriptor Dataset-specific Information
Name of Dataset in TRE NHSE_IAPT
Citation (APA) Data Services, NHS England (NHSE). (2024). NHS England: Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression (IAPT). UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00360-03
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Series NHS England
Owner NHS England
Temporal Coverage in the TRE 04/2012 - ongoing
Geographical Coverage England
Participant Count N/A - Dataset comprises of multiple auxiliary tables
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
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2. Metrics#

Click on the plus sign to see the number of participants represented in each dataset.

Table 2: Participants from each LPS represented in the IAPT dataset in the UK LLC TRE. Note: Individual cohort counts of less than 10 are suppressed to <10 and excluded from total participant counts for datasets.

3. Version History#

Version 2 3
Version Date 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024
Number of Variables 192 226
Number of Observations 58680 117207
DOI 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00360-02 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00360-03
Change Log 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00360-02/activities 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00360-03/activities

4. Documentation#

We are currently building a documentation storage system which will host useful documents related to datasets and data owners. We will surface these documents on Guidebook.

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 the UK LLC GitHub repository where you can find the full scripts.