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Mental Health Services: Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the availability of beds at psychiatric inpatient units.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Jul 2025
Target answer date
22 Jul 2025
Answer
29 Jul 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the availability of beds at psychiatric inpatient units.

  2. 22 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 29 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    As part of our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future, we need to focus treatment away from hospital and inpatient care and improve community and crisis services. Through our 10-Year Health Plan we will make sure more mental...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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