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<p>Progress against the targets for mental health services improvement, set out within
the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, are tracked on the Mental Health Five
Year Forward View Dashboard which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a
href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p><p>
</p><p>This shows that the National Health Service is on track to meet the targets
for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT).</p><p> </p><p>The latest ‘Psychological
Therapies, Annual report on the use of IAPT services - England, 2016/17’, which was
published on 30 November, can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30157"
target="_blank">http://www.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30157</a></p><p> </p><p>This
shows that in 2016/17, 965,379 people entered treatment, resulting in an annualised
access rate of 15.79%, exceeding the 15% target. Monthly data published by NHS Digital,
up to and including August 2017, show that for 2017/18, 415,437 people have so far
entered treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Complete data for 2017/18 will not be available until
early 2018/19.</p><p> </p>
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