Question follow-through · 101711

Mental Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2025 to Question 96915 on Mental Health Services: Standards, what steps he is taking to ensure that all people discharged from Integrated Care Board commission

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
5 Jan 2026
Answer
27 Jan 2026 · 40 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 18 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2025 to Question 96915 on Mental Health Services: Standards, what steps he is taking to ensure that all people discharged from Integrated Care Board commission

  2. 5 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 27 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The national ambition is for all mental health trusts to ensure 80% of patients discharged from adult acute mental health inpatient settings are followed up within 72 hours, and is intended to bring focus not just to the timeliness of follow-up, but also ...

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