Mental health patients seeking treatment face 'postcode lottery'

People needing access to NHS England’s flagship therapies programme face delays, research finds

People with anxiety or depression are facing delays of more than four months to start having “talking therapies” treatment, new research shows.

Patients living in the Leicester city clinical commissioning group area waited an average of 135 days last year after being referred before they had their first appointment, the House of Commons library found. That contrasted starkly to the shortest waiting time – just five days in Stoke-on-Trent.

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