Question follow-through · 38336
Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of adults with severe mental illness who are currently waiting for treatment from community mental health services; and what steps he is taking to reduce wai
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of adults with severe mental illness who are currently waiting for treatment from community mental health services; and what steps he is taking to reduce wai
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
As of 31 January 2025, there were 188,009 people with 211,891 referrals waiting for treatment from community mental health services. Treatment has been defined as receiving a second care contact, where the person attended the care contact and was spoken t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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