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Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for mental health treatment.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
14 Mar 2025
Answer
19 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for mental health treatment.

  2. 14 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Too many people are not receiving the mental health care they need and we know that waits for mental health services are lengthy. As part of our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future, we will recruit an extra 8,500 mental h...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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