Question follow-through · 16714
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department has on the average waiting time for young people to receive a first appointment for child and adolescent mental health services in (a) South Cumbria, (b) Lancashire
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department has on the average waiting time for young people to receive a first appointment for child and adolescent mental health services in (a) South Cumbria, (b) Lancashire
2 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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9 Dec 2024
Answer published
The following table shows the mean and median average waiting times between referral and first contact for children and young people aged under 18 years old, in the nearest equivalent local authority areas, for April to September 2024:Local authority area...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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