Question follow-through · 119607
Mental Health Services: Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support families who travel long distances for NHS-commissioned inpatient mental health care.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support families who travel long distances for NHS-commissioned inpatient mental health care.
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2026
Answer published
We recognise that being sent to a hospital far away from home, family, and support networks means a poorer experience of care for patients and increased safety risks, which is why we are working to end this practice. We have invested £75 million of capita...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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