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Mental Health Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the adequacy of waiting times for talking therapies in (a) Slough, (b) Berkshire and (c) England.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the adequacy of waiting times for talking therapies in (a) Slough, (b) Berkshire and (c) England.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
The latest NHS Talking Therapies data for England show that as of December 2024, 91.2% of people completing treatment waited less than six weeks for their first appointment, against a target of 75%. Additionally, 98.4% of people completing treatment waite...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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