Get position of therapy types within the referral pathways — get_therapy_position

Get the number of courses of therapy by therapy type and position within the referral pathway. A course of therapy is a set of 2 or more attended treatment appointments where the same therapy type is recorded that occur within a referral pathway. Counts are based on referrals finishing a course of treatment in the year. Other low/high internsity and low/high employment support therapy types have been excluded from theses analyses.

Usage

get_therapy_position_annual(periods = NULL, use_cache = TRUE, version = NULL)

Arguments

periods: Character vector, specifying periods (e.g., "2023-24", "2024-25"). If NULL (default), returns all available annual periods
use_cache: Logical, specifying whether to use cached data if available. Default TRUE.
version: Character, specifying a pinned data version (e.g., "0.1.0"). If NULL (default), the latest version is used. See available_versions().

Value

Tibble with key measures data in long format

References

NHS England. NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression Annual Reports

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get all annual periods
therapy_df <- get_therapy_position_annual()

# Get specific annual periods
therapy_df <- get_therapy_position_annual(periods = c("2023-24", "2024-25"))

# Re-download to get the latest data version
therapy_df <- get_therapy_position_annual(use_cache = FALSE)

# Pin to a specific data version for reproducibility
therapy_df <- get_therapy_position_annual(version = "0.1.0")
} # }