Trying to get treatment how long will it take?

This document is the governments’ action plan for mental health therapies for the next four years

http://www.iapt.nhs.uk/silo/files/talking-therapies-a-four-year-plan-of-action.pdf

The flow diagram on page 14 describes the pathways through the system and how fast you can expect to progress. The document also states that this ‘tried and tested’ number of clinicians to population will be able to provide this, however given friends and my own experiences I am sceptical about the actual results...

So where are the statistics to back up their claims?      

                           I can’t find them and the document itself does not contain the references.

Looking at the diagram I could expect to be in treatment/ treatment program a month from my initial meeting with my GP or my, self referral. The process to treatment would include an assessment consultation as to my needs and referral to the most appropriate service; however who or what ‘the initial service’ is/are eludes me and so I conclude that it is still my GP who is left with the onerous task of knowing this kind of stuff when I thought at least part of the idea was to get away from that.

So having read this I am left with questions for instance;

Is this SERVICE one body of workers or several different groups, do they all work from the same place and have the same phone number and what is it?

Would engaging with any part of the service ensure that I hear about or am considered for all of the available services?

Will they move my information/notes between groups or will each group do their own assessment/ make their own notes?

If so how much longer will this make it before I start the actual treatment?

Who if anyone will make sure that each department does what they say they will or is it down to me to keep track?

This new and improved agenda feels woefully simplified, prone to loopholes, complications with time delays, repeated patient assessment and may result in people slipping through the system in the same way as they have in the past so I wonder if this really any better?  

And where are those data collections on patient care that might give the insight into whether this is making any difference?

Only just being collected it seems.

 So I guess it’s watch that space.