When viewing the Referral Data tab for either IAPT or Emp referral, within the form there is “Employment Advisor Pilot” if enabled, that will say if the Episode is linked (and which other Episode it is linked to). We also want to update the Data Quality workbook to be able to indicate this.

NHS England expects that a single Employment Referral Date is provided for each Talking Therapies (IAPT) episode of care. The iaptus system follows this workflow, ensuring that your reporting data is accepted for submissions. If you find that your service differs from this expectation, please bring it to the attention of the DWP and NHSE. When the rules change, iaptus will be updated accordingly.

If the patient does not attend the session (cancels or does not attend) you do not need to record any fields where the answers are supplied by the attendee. 

The DWP received aggregate data from NHSE based on the submission reports from providers. Patients do have the choice to opt out of being included in any reporting by visiting the NHSE website: https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/opt-out-of-sharing-your-health-records/ 

If any patient is concerned about how or where their data is being used, please refer them to this website for further information. All data from iaptus should flow through to NHSE regardless of the patient’s consent preference as this is then managed centrally by NHSE and the SPINE system.

If the therapist on the Talking Therapies (IAPT) Treatment episode is the referring one, then you can run the Referral Count in  Hypercube  

Filters to apply:

Set the Employment Support Suitability Indicator to Yes and then group by the Allocated Therapist.

If you just want active referrals, apply the Exclude CLOSED Cases found under the Additional Filters section.

If you want to apply a date range, apply the Referral Received date range, found under the Care Pathway Filters section.

You will then receive a table by Therapist with a referral count for each, you can then click on the Referral count hyperlink to jump you into the patient table.

With Option 2, there is no need to keep the main IAPT referral open whilst the linked employment episode is still ongoing. NHSE will allow employment support contacts to flow through in submissions even after the referral has been closed as long as they are mapped correctly with an appointment purpose of ‘Employment support’ (AppType 10).

Data about the employment status is submitted in the IDS004EmpStatus table. Data about employment support contacts is submitted in the IDS201CareContact table and the IDS202CareActivity table.  All of these reports can be found in the National reports app.

Both configurations, either a single episode or dual episodes, will allow you to record and report on the Employment data correctly. The option your service chooses will need to support your workflow and processes. 

The Talking Therapies (IAPT) therapist should be identifying a patient as being suitable for employment support and therefore filling in the Employment support Suitability indicator on the Talking Therapies (IAPT) episode .

If your service is using an Employment Treatment Type that is using the Employment Dataset, then the Employment Support Indicator is not available.

If your service is using an Employment Treatment Type that is using the IAPT Dataset and the Employment Suitability  Date and Discharge Dates are populated, these will take precedence over the received date and Referral Discharge date for that episode.