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Psychological Therapies Waiting Times Edit

Psychological therapies refer to a range of interventions, based on psychological concepts and theory, which are designed to help people understand and make changes to their thinking, behaviour and relationships in order to relieve distress and to improve functioning. The target applies specifically to psychological therapies for treatment of a mental illness or disorder.\r\n\r\nThe Psychological Therapies service are subject to deliver an 18 week wait from referral to treatment for specialist services this has been the standard since December 2014. This supersedes the previous target of 26 weeks. The data shows the performances of the board in relation to this standard.

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License	UK Open Government Licence v3.0
Category	Uncategorised
Maintainer	Public Health Scotland
Date Created	2019-04-30
Date Updated	2024-09-03
Original dataset link	https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/psychological-therapies-waiting-times