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Mental Health Services

Answer

The information requested is shown in the table.

Waiting times for first out-patient appointment following general practitioner (GP) written referral, September 2002 to September 2005, provider based Effective length of wait from receipt of GP written referral request to first out-patient attendance (weeks)
Quarter(September)	Code	Name	0 to <4	4 to <13	13 to <17	17 to <21	21 plus	Median wait (weeks)
2002	RTC	County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust	243	163	12	7	24	3.7
2003	RTC	County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust	194	69	0	0	0	2.7
2004	RTC	County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust	0	0	0	0	0	n/a
2005	RTC	County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust	0	0	0	0	0	n/a
2002	RVX	Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust	262	203	15	3	2	3.7
2003	RVX	Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust	257	259	2	1	0	4.1
2004	RVX	Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust	222	170	0	0	0	3.5
2005	RVX	Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust	215	184	1	0	0	3.7
n/a=Not available. Notes: Data for specialties 710 Mental Illness 711 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 712 Forensic Psychiatry 713 Psychotherapy 715 Old Age Psychiatry 1. Due to small numbers, the calculation of the median wait is prone to fluctuation. Care should be taken when interpreting these figures. 2. Waiting times apply to consultant-led appointments only. Services in many areas are now run by multi disciplinary teams. Source: Department of Health form QM08.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

45016; 442 c978-80W;442 c978-80W

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Mental health services Psychiatry Waiting lists Psychology Easington

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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