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<p>The information requested is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><p>Mean waiting
times<sup>1,2 </sup>(in days) to enter treatment of Improving Access to Psychological
Therapy referrals who finished a course of treatment<sup>3</sup> in 2014/15 and 2015/16
at England level and split by age group.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Referrals
for those aged 65 to 74</p></td><td><p>32.3</p></td><td><p>27.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Referrals
for those aged over 75</p></td><td><p>30.5</p></td><td><p>26.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Notes:</p><p><sup>1</sup>Waiting
time to enter treatment is calculated as the number of days between the referral received
date and the first attended treatment appointment. Referral received date and the
first treatment appointment dates do not necessarily occur in the year.</p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup>The
waiting times here are based on the current methodology, used in the 2014-15 and 2015-16
annual publications, which calculates waiting times based on the number of referrals
finishing a course of treatment in the year. Previous years' annual data are based
on an earlier methodology that is not comparable with the data included here.</p><p>
</p><p><sup>3</sup>In order to finish a course of treatment, a referral must have
ended in the year with at least two treatment appointments having been attended in
the course of the referral.</p>
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