The star rating system is no longer used by the Healthcare Commission. The rating system is now shown through scores of ‘weak’, ‘fair’, ‘good’ and ‘excellent’. The information requested can be found in the following table:
Name of Trust Use of Resources Quality of Services Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust Fair Good Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust Good Excellent Central and North West London Mental Health Trust Good Excellent East London and The City Mental Health Trust Good Excellent North East London Mental Health Trust Fair Good Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Excellent Good South London and Maudesly NHS Foundation Trust Excellent Good South West London and St. George's Mental Health Trust Fair Fair Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Good Excellent West London Mental Health NHS Trust Good Excellent
The information requested has been placed in the Library.
Information relating to average waiting times for talking therapies is not held centrally. However, this can be obtained directly from the national health service trusts concerned.
Currently, there are no national waiting times targets for access to psychological therapies in primary care. Waiting times standards are being developed which will be tested in the new Pathfinder Sites for improving access to psychological therapies in 2007-08. These sites will test out proposed standards including appropriate access times for different stages of treatment as detailed in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Guidelines.
The information is not available in the format requested. Waiting times can only be calculated back to 2005 as prior to this, data were only collected for waits over 13 weeks. The available information has been set out in the tables.
Waiting time data are collected for consultant led out-patient appointments, but recently more work is being done by multi-disciplinary teams. Therefore waiting lists have fallen for mental health specialties. Furthermore, as numbers are small, data for average waits cannot be calculated for all trusts.
Furthermore, in-patient psychiatric activity has fallen over time as we have established more than 700 new mental health teams providing community based care as an alternative to acute in-patient care.
Not yet seen at the end of the month who are still waiting Time period—month ending Name Total over 13 week out-patient waiters not seen after 1st out-patient appointment for mental health specialties Not seen 13<17 weeks Not seen 17<21 weeks Not seen 21+ weeks Not seen 21<26 weeks Not seen 26+ weeks March 2003 Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust 8 5 3 0 0 0 March 2003 North East London Mental Health NHS Trust 15 10 5 0 0 0 March 2003 West London Mental Health NHS Trust 9 5 4 0 0 0 March 2003 Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust 3 2 1 0 0 0 March 2003 South West London and St. George’s NHS Trust 10 4 5 1 1 0 March 2003 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust 32 17 15 0 0 0 March 2003 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2 2 0 0 0 0 March 2003 Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust 4 4 0 0 0 0 March 2003 South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust 81 33 47 1 0 1 March 2003 East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust 18 13 5 0 0 0 March 2003 Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust 5 5 0 0 0 0
Time period—month ending Name Total over 13 week out-patient waiters not seen after 1st out-patient appointment for mental health specialties Not seen 13<17 weeks Not seen 17<21 weeks Not seen 21 +weeks Not seen 21<26weeks Not seen 26+weeks March 2004 North East London Mental Health NHS Trust 1 1 0 0 0 0 March 2004 West London Mental Health NHS Trust 9 9 0 0 0 0 March 2004 Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust 2 2 0 0 0 0 March 2004 Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 43 43 0 0 0 0 March 2004 South West London and St. George’s NHS Trust 1 1 0 0 0 0 March 2004 East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust 9 9 0 0 0 0 March 2004 Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust 1 1 0 0 0 0 Note: Previous to June 2004, the out-patients not seen were only collected for patients not seen who were waiting 13 weeks and above. Therefore no average could be calculated. Source: QM08NS
Time period—month ending Name Median waiting time of patients still waiting for a 1st out-patient appointment for mental health specialties (in weeks) March 2005 Bromley PCT n/a March 2005 Hillingdon PCT n/a March 2005 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust n/a March 2005 North East London Mental Health NHS Trust 5.6 March 2005 West London Mental Health NHS Trust 4.7 March 2005 Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust 3.7 March 2005 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust n/a March 2005 Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 5.9 March 2005 South West London and St. George’s NHS Trust 4.9 March 2005 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust n/a March 2005 Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust 3.8 March 2005 East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust 4.7 March 2005 Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust 7.9 March 2006 Bromley PCT n/a March 2006 Barnet PCT n/a March 2006 Hillingdon PCT n/a March 2006 Brent PCT n/a March 2006 West London Mental Health NHS Trust 4.4 March 2006 Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust 3.4 March 2006 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust n/a March 2006 Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 4.0 March 2006 South West London and St. George’s NHS Trust 3.4 March 2006 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust n/a March 2006 Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust 3.3 March 2006 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 3.8 March 2006 East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust 4.2 March 2006 Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust n/a March 2007 Bromley PCT n/a March 2007 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust n/a March 2007 West London Mental Health NHS Trust 3.1 March 2007 Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust 3.3 March 2007 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust n/a March 2007 Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 6.6 March 2007 South West London and St. George’s NHS Trust 3.6 March 2007 University College London NHS Foundation Trust n/a March 2007 Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust 3.9 March 2007 East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust 4.3 March 2007 Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust n/a September 2007 Bromley PCT n/a September 2007 Croydon PCT n/a September 2007 King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust n/a September 2007 West London Mental Health NHS Trust 2.9 September 2007 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust n/a September 2007 South West London and St. George’s NHS Trust 2.5 September 2007 University College London NHS Foundation Trust n/a September 2007 Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust 2.9 September 2007 East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust 6.9 September 2007 Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust n/a n/a = not applicable. Notes: 1. Median waiting times are calculated from aggregate data, rather than patient level data, and therefore are only estimates of the position on average waits. In particular, specialties with low numbers waiting are prone to fluctuations in the median. This should be taken into account when interpreting the data. 2. Medians are provided for out-patients not seen with total of less than 50 because this population is too small for a statistically meaningful median to be calculated so a n/a shown in that case. Source: QM08NS