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Bereavement Counselling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the need for improved access to mental health services for people experiencing bereavement following sudden or traumatic deaths.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 May 2025
Target answer date
15 May 2025
Answer
20 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the need for improved access to mental health services for people experiencing bereavement following sudden or traumatic deaths.

  2. 15 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 May 2025

    Answer published

    No assessment has been made. It is important that anybody who wants to access bereavement support can do so. We encourage anybody that wants to access support to speak with their general practitioner in the first instance. Integrated care boards (ICBs) ar...

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