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Bipolar Disorder: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to create specialist services for people with bipolar disorder.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
12 Nov 2024
Answer
12 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 6 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to create specialist services for people with bipolar disorder.

  2. 12 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 12 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The Community Mental Health Framework set out a vision for transforming community mental health services. The vision is a whole person, whole population approach to community health services, with new integrated models between primary and secondary care t...

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