Question follow-through · 12009
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) increase (i) capacity and (ii) coordination among mental health services to ensure people receive treatment close to home, (b) provide free prescriptions to people with
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) increase (i) capacity and (ii) coordination among mental health services to ensure people receive treatment close to home, (b) provide free prescriptions to people with
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
As part of our mission to build a National Health Service fit for the future, we are committed to shifting care out of hospitals and into the community, close to people’s homes. NHS England is currently piloting neighbourhood based, open access community ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Members: Correspondence
4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter of 22 July 2024 from the hon. member for Henley and Thame about step down beds at Chiltern Court, Henley on Thames.
Dementia: Care Workers
18 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on dementia care in his plans for social care workforce reform; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making dementia training mandatory for adult s
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination
19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish real world evidence on the effectiveness of the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine in the 75-80 cohort; how much such evidence has been collected; and whether such evidenc
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination
19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department’s policies of the recommendation from the French health authority that the RSV vaccine should be provided to (a) 75-80 a
Gluten-free Foods: Prescriptions
19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to help support people with Coeliac disease with the cost of food; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of widening access to gluten free product
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Babies
19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of testing newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy.
Physician Associates: Training
21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of (a) patient knowledge of the training physicians associates receive and (b) information available in general practice for patients on physician
Physician Associates: Finance and Incentives
21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the (a) incentives and (b) funding for physician associates.
NHS: Take-up
21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the uptake of (a) digital innovation and (b) patient data systems within the NHS.
Hospitals: Construction
4 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the New Hospital Programme review, when the (a) options and (b) recommendations for the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading will be published; and when he plans to announce which ho
Givinostat
10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were in receipt of Givinostat through the Early Access Programme on 10 December 2024; and if he will make an assessment of the potential barriers to accessing the Early Access Pro
Medical Treatments
10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support NHS Trusts to speed up access to innovative therapies before MHRA approval through Early Access Programmes.