Question follow-through · 4624
Suicide: Men
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure GPs are adequately trained and equipped to identify and respond to men at risk of suicide.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure GPs are adequately trained and equipped to identify and respond to men at risk of suicide.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2026
Answer published
Our first ever Men’s Health Strategy, launched on 19 November 2025, announced the Suicide Prevention Support Pathfinders programme which will invest up to £3.6 million over three years in areas of England where middle-aged men face the greatest risk of su...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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