Question follow-through · 46575
Bipolar Disorder: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to establish specialist care pathways for people with bipolar to (a) improve treatment and (b) reduce misdiagnosis.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to establish specialist care pathways for people with bipolar to (a) improve treatment and (b) reduce misdiagnosis.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
It is unacceptable that too many people are not receiving the mental health care they need, and we know that waits for mental health services are far too long, including for people with bipolar disorder. We are determined to change that.As part of our mis...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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