Waiting List & Remote Consultations for CYP, 2024 & 2025
Reference: 24-25528
Date response sent: 14/03/2025
Details of enquiry
I am writing to request information under the freedom of information act on your organisations waiting list information.
- Please can you fill in the below table on waiting list figures for Adults and Children and Young People (CYP) split by Mental Health Conditions
Response sent
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist NHS mental health trust with a focus on training and education, as well as providing a full range of mental health services and therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological services via talking therapies. We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, nor detention facilities, and do not have an A&E department
The data requested in your table does not entirely match our service provision and this is explained in the extra column we added to your table, for our notes.
| Mental Health Condition | Number of inpatients seen in 2024 | Number of outpatients seen 2024
(unique patients) |
What proportion of outpatient appointments are delivered remotely? | Number of people waiting for treatment at the end of January 2025
(Treatment defined as 2nd Appt. includes those awaiting 1st appt) |
Average waiting time for 1st appointment | Notes
|
| ADHD (Adults) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No Service Provision for adults |
| ADHD (CYP) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | The Trust may on rare occasions provide ADHD assessment and diagnosis as part of a holistic assessment but is not commissioned to provide a specific ADHD diagnostic pathway.
Patients with suspected ADHD would be referred to the (locally situated) Royal Free hospital for assessment/diagnosis, but we do not perform the diagnosis ourselves. |
| Autism (Adults) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No service provision for adults. |
| Autism (CYP) – Assessment | n/a | 458 | 59.65% | 220 | 20.03 weeks | The ASD diagnostic service is generally for 12- 18 years age group, See our website for further details of the service Autism assessment service – Tavistock and Portman
Post diagnostic provision is covered under the Autism and Learning Disability service |
| Learning Disabilities (Adults) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No service provision for adults. |
| Autism and Learning Disabilities (CYP) | n/a | 131 | 21.82% | 5 | 4.26 weeks | No separate service for Learning Disabilities – forms part of the Autism and Learning Disabilities Service |
| Anxiety and Depression (Adults) | n/a | Cannot calculate | Cannot calculate | Cannot calculate | Cannot calculate | Cannot be quantified as this forms part of other mental health services |
| Anxiety and Depression (CYP) | n/a | Cannot calculate | Cannot calculate | Cannot calculate | Cannot calculate | Cannot be quantified as this forms part of other mental health services |
| Eating Disorders (Adults) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | The Trust does not provide an Eating Disorders Service for adults |
| Eating Disorders (CYP) | n/a | 174 | 28.43% | 22 | 5.05 weeks | The Trust provides an Early intervention Eating Difficulties Service for Children and Young People, and does not provide any traditional Eating Disorder services |
| Early Intervention in Psychosis (Adults) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No service provision for adults. |
| Early Intervention in Psychosis (CYP) | n/a | Cannot calculate | Cannot calculate | Cannot calculate | Cannot calculate | We provide the staffing but North London NHS Foundation Trust manage the service and would hold this data Their FOI contact: nlft.Freedom.Information@nhs.net |