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The results of an audit project on treatment length from an NHS department of psychoanalytic psychotherapy are outlined. Average lengths of treatment in individual and group therapy are reported. A discrepancy was found between the ‘prescribed’ length of therapy and length of time actually spent in therapy. The change of practice prompted by the findings of this audit project is explained.