Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

January 1, 2023 admin 2016, Jim Shannon, Parliamentary Question

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-01-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with (a) anxiety and (b) depression in each of the last five years.

Alistair Burt

Data published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre on the number and prevalence of patients aged 18 and over on the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) depression register in England, as at 31 March for the years 2010/11-2014/15 is shown in the table below.

Data on anxiety is not collected through QOF.

Year	Number of general practitioner (GP) practices	Patient list size all ages	Percentage aged 18 and over	Estimated patient list size of those aged 18 and over	Number of patients aged 18 and over on the depression register	Prevalance
2014/15 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 2010/11	7,779 7,921 8,020 8,123 8,245	55,817,654 56,324,887 56,012,096 55,525,732 55,169,643	79.3 79.3 79.0 79.0 79.0	45,083,980 44,667,478 44,238,483 43,855,136 43,578,391	3,305,363 2,912,592 2,582,233 5,123,948 4,878,188	7.3 6.5 5.8 11.7 11.2

Source: Quality and Outcomes Framework annual publications, 2010/11 to 2014/15

Note:

Data from years prior to 2012/13 are not comparable with data for years 2012/13 onwards as the QOF business rules for including patients on the depression register changed in 2012/13. Prior to 2012/13, all patients with a record of unresolved depression at any point in their GP patient record were included on the register. As of 1 April 2012, the register rules were changed to only include patients with a new diagnosis of depression in the preceding 1 April to 31 March, who have had a bio-psychosocial assessment by the point of diagnosis.

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