Department of Health and Social Care

We support ministers in leading the nation’s health and social care to help people live more independent, healthier lives for longer. DHSC is a ministerial department, supported by 23 agencies and public bodies.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care

Ministers

• The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP
  Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
• Will Quince MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Health and Secondary Care)
• Helen Whately MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Social Care)
• Neil O'Brien MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Primary Care and Public Health)
• Maria Caulfield MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Mental Health and Women’s Health Strategy)
• Lord Markham CBE
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the Lords)

Petitions linked to this department

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• Enable Dental Care Professionals to claim an NHS pension
  Open from Tuesday 23rd February 2021 to Monday 23rd August 2021
  3,229 signatures

• Increase awareness and investment for Peritoneal Cancer research.
  Open from Friday 19th February 2021 to Thursday 19th August 2021
  136 signatures

• Double pay for healthcare professionals dealing with Covid patients
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  62 signatures

• Fund research into additional Covid-19 prevention measures
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  10 signatures

• Review quarantine rules for international arrivals travelling for work
  Open from Thursday 18th February 2021 to Wednesday 18th August 2021
  237 signatures

• Fund the use of environmentally friendly PPE in hospitals and care settings
  Open from Wednesday 17th February 2021 to Tuesday 17th August 2021
  254 signatures

• Free test to release scheme for EU/international students with family abroad.
  Open from Wednesday 17th February 2021 to Tuesday 17th August 2021
  61 signatures

• Prioritise all asthmatics for the Covid vaccine.
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  5,296 signatures

• Establish a new body to represent NHS workers and develop Covid recovery plan
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  17 signatures

• Fund research for a cure/treatment for abdominal migraines and CVS
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  1,739 signatures

• Do not enforce mandatory hotel quarantines for international arrivals.
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  198 signatures

• No hotel quarantine for UK citizens, permanent residents and their families
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  26,269 signatures

• Prioritise refuse collectors for Covid-19 vaccination
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  16 signatures

• Fund breast reductions on medical grounds for all women on the NHS
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  54 signatures

• Reverse the vaccine program, start vaccinate secondary school children up to OAP
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  29 signatures

• Increase funding to provide support and research into Tourettes Syndrome
  Open from Tuesday 16th February 2021 to Monday 16th August 2021
  71,035 signatures

• Offer the smear test to over-16s
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  2,588 signatures

• Fund free dental care for all ages
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  104 signatures

• Fund more support and awareness for pelvic floor prolapses in women
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  876 signatures

• Introduce a 'Vaccination Passport' for international travel
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  7,278 signatures

• Free prescriptions for transplant patients
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  1,222 signatures

• Fund increased support for people with eating disorders
  Open from Friday 12th February 2021 to Thursday 12th August 2021
  2,734 signatures

• Amend the Mental Health Act to strengthen Nearest Relatives' rights
  Open from Wednesday 10th February 2021 to Tuesday 10th August 2021
  28 signatures

• Introduce A “Safe-haven law” for unwanted babies under 3 weeks old
  Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
  1,880 signatures

• Make displaying a “face covering exempt” sign mandatory, for the rightly exempt
  Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
  325 signatures

• Fund widespread Covid-19 T cell testing, including for those offered vaccination
  Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
  112 signatures

• Increase funding for eating disorder treatment in the community and inpatient
  Open from Monday 8th February 2021 to Sunday 8th August 2021
  13,365 signatures

• Provide free face masks for everyone, and free N95 masks for vulnerable people
  Open from Friday 5th February 2021 to Thursday 5th August 2021
  36 signatures

• Start a national campaign to highlight the suicide rate in men under 50
  Open from Friday 5th February 2021 to Thursday 5th August 2021
  39 signatures

• Stop pharmaceutical companies exporting UK made vaccines until UK contracts met
  Open from Friday 5th February 2021 to Thursday 5th August 2021
  16 signatures

• Prioritise Couriers/Postal Workers for COVID vaccination
  Open from Friday 5th February 2021 to Thursday 5th August 2021
  67 signatures

• Increase funding for NHS transgender services
  Open from Thursday 4th February 2021 to Wednesday 4th August 2021
  55,947 signatures

• Once priority groups in the UK are vaccinated redirect Covid-19 vaccines abroad
  Open from Thursday 4th February 2021 to Wednesday 4th August 2021
  296 signatures

• Free prescriptions for all asthma sufferers
  Open from Thursday 4th February 2021 to Wednesday 4th August 2021
  123 signatures

• To establish a National Social Care Service, funded through general taxation.
  Open from Wednesday 3rd February 2021 to Tuesday 3rd August 2021
  519 signatures

• Fund free meals for NHS frontline workers while on shift
  Open from Wednesday 3rd February 2021 to Tuesday 3rd August 2021
  179 signatures

• Fund access to Kaftrio for CF patients in England in line with other UK nations
  Open from Wednesday 3rd February 2021 to Tuesday 3rd August 2021
  3,199 signatures

• Ban circumcision at birth unless this risks health of the child
  Open from Tuesday 2nd February 2021 to Monday 2nd August 2021
  222 signatures

• Make additional funding available for care of dementia patients
  Open from Monday 1st February 2021 to Sunday 1st August 2021
  37 signatures

• Fund recruitment of additional NHS counsellors to support public mental health
  Open from Thursday 28th January 2021 to Wednesday 28th July 2021
  40 signatures

• Increase research funding into the use of Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19
  Open from Wednesday 27th January 2021 to Tuesday 27th July 2021
  2,138 signatures

• Consider estate agents for the vaccine before being rolled out to all
  Open from Wednesday 27th January 2021 to Tuesday 27th July 2021
  53 signatures

• Make female sterilisation available on demand to all women aged 16 and over
  Open from Tuesday 26th January 2021 to Monday 26th July 2021
  41 signatures

• Clear any NHS student debt accrued during the covid 19 pandemic
  Open from Monday 25th January 2021 to Sunday 25th July 2021
  23 signatures

• Increase funding to research/medical institutions to find a cure for tinnitus
  Open from Monday 25th January 2021 to Sunday 25th July 2021
  73 signatures

• Pay 15% bonus to public facing NHS staff
  Open from Monday 25th January 2021 to Sunday 25th July 2021
  40 signatures

• Increase the minimum wage for care workers
  Open from Monday 25th January 2021 to Sunday 25th July 2021
  128 signatures

• Fund a mental health text messaging service
  Open from Friday 22nd January 2021 to Thursday 22nd July 2021
  17 signatures

• Provide funding for research on the safety of adjuvants in vaccines
  Open from Friday 22nd January 2021 to Thursday 22nd July 2021
  52 signatures

• Give an honorarium of £1000 to all NHS staff.
  Open from Friday 22nd January 2021 to Thursday 22nd July 2021
  67 signatures

• Prioritise telecoms and utilities engineers for the vaccination
  Open from Friday 22nd January 2021 to Thursday 22nd July 2021
  110 signatures

• Fund urgent counselling support to NHS staff involved in COVID crisis.
  Open from Friday 22nd January 2021 to Thursday 22nd July 2021
  37 signatures

• Increase funding for mental health crisis patient aftercare
  Open from Friday 22nd January 2021 to Thursday 22nd July 2021
  46 signatures

• Fund costs of replacement consumables for Community Public Access Defibrillators
  Open from Friday 22nd January 2021 to Thursday 22nd July 2021
  324 signatures

• Rename the NHS to "The Royal National Health Service"
  Open from Thursday 21st January 2021 to Wednesday 21st July 2021
  66 signatures

• Do not rollout Covid-19 vaccine passports
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  375,208 signatures

• Fund more suitable care homes for the physically disabled
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  20 signatures

• Give all Nurses and lower paid NHS Staff a tax free bonus of £5000
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  69 signatures

• Prioritise immediate family of healthcare workers for Covid-19 vaccinate
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  50 signatures

• Fund increased sick pay for community carers during Covid-19 outbreak
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  24 signatures

• Require people in care to were face coverings when in presence of care staff
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  24 signatures

• Use proceeds from Covid-19 fines to fund a bonus for frontline NHS staff
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  27 signatures

• Include Covid 19 Testers in the frontline worker priority group for vaccination
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  143 signatures

• Fund treatment for RCPD on the NHS
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  123 signatures

• Exempt people on the autistic spectrum or with ADHD from NHS prescription charge
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  232 signatures

• Payrise for Paramedics/Technicians
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  17 signatures

• Provide DNA sequencing of urine cultures on the NHS
  Open from Tuesday 19th January 2021 to Monday 19th July 2021
  18 signatures

• Make COVID-19 tests available to all members of households with a positive case
  Open from Tuesday 19th January 2021 to Monday 19th July 2021
  10 signatures

• Prioritise over-55 self-employed construction workers for Covid-19 vaccination
  Open from Tuesday 19th January 2021 to Monday 19th July 2021
  15 signatures

• Prioritise professional drivers/public transport operators for vaccination
  Open from Tuesday 19th January 2021 to Monday 19th July 2021
  242 signatures

• Prioritise HGV and delivery drivers to get the vaccine
  Open from Tuesday 19th January 2021 to Monday 19th July 2021
  525 signatures

• Make Healthy Start Vouchers available to use on ONLINE supermarket shopping
  Open from Monday 18th January 2021 to Sunday 18th July 2021
  25 signatures

• Make sunbed shops have to advertise the health risks of sunbeds like cigarettes.
  Open from Friday 15th January 2021 to Thursday 15th July 2021
  62 signatures

• ALL nursing students to be eligible for the nursing training grant
  Open from Friday 15th January 2021 to Thursday 15th July 2021
  17 signatures

• Make FFP3 masks available to all staff working with SARS-CoV2
  Open from Friday 15th January 2021 to Thursday 15th July 2021
  3,322 signatures

• Fund at least one round of IVF regardless of partner's children
  Open from Friday 15th January 2021 to Thursday 15th July 2021
  754 signatures

• Make Pharmacy staff a priority for covid vaccination
  Open from Thursday 14th January 2021 to Wednesday 14th July 2021
  32 signatures

• Prioritise one parent of young adults in care homes for Covid-19 vaccination.
  Open from Thursday 14th January 2021 to Wednesday 14th July 2021
  45 signatures

• Provide regular, weekly coronavirus testing for Adult Day Support Workers
  Open from Thursday 14th January 2021 to Wednesday 14th July 2021
  9 signatures

• Add Construction workers to the priority list for the COVID-19 Vaccine
  Open from Thursday 14th January 2021 to Wednesday 14th July 2021
  1,014 signatures

• Review the role and membership of the SAGE group
  Open from Thursday 14th January 2021 to Wednesday 14th July 2021
  23 signatures

• Prohibit contracting private organisations for Covid-19 vaccination programme
  Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
  125 signatures

• Offer scans to all women after labour to check for retained placenta
  Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
  56 signatures

• Provide routine Covid tests for Early Years and prioritise staff for vaccination
  Open from Tuesday 12th January 2021 to Monday 12th July 2021
  207 signatures

• Make the COVID-19 vaccine available to all students on placement in the pandemic
  Open from Tuesday 12th January 2021 to Monday 12th July 2021
  27 signatures

• Provide reusable face masks for everyone
  Open from Tuesday 12th January 2021 to Monday 12th July 2021
  68 signatures

• Fund research into stem cell treatments for diseases like ASL, MS, etc.
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  17 signatures

• Fund additional mental health support for those bereaved during the pandemic
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  107 signatures

• Allow university students to be able to register at 2 GP surgeries
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  49 signatures

• Free Laser Eye Surgery for curable eyesight conditions NHS
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  30 signatures

• Ban Brazilian Butt Augmentations
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  11 signatures

• Make prison staff top priority as key workers to recieve the covid 19 vaccine
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  13,092 signatures

• Include Cabin Crew as frontline staff and prioritise for Covid 19 vaccine
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  3,098 signatures

• Ban vaccines being administered in a manner not fully tested in clinical trials
  Open from Friday 8th January 2021 to Thursday 8th July 2021
  2,334 signatures

• Prioritise Key Retail Workers, being offered the Covid Vaccine!
  Open from Friday 8th January 2021 to Thursday 8th July 2021
  47,938 signatures

• Prioritise early years practitioners to urgently receive Covid 19 vaccine.
  Open from Friday 8th January 2021 to Thursday 8th July 2021
  7,843 signatures

• Expand the symptoms list for Covid-19 to more than the three currently stated
  Open from Friday 8th January 2021 to Thursday 8th July 2021
  24 signatures

• Independent review of the NHS dental contract
  Open from Friday 8th January 2021 to Thursday 8th July 2021
  11,067 signatures

• Prioritise special school staff in Covid 19 vaccinations.
  Open from Thursday 7th January 2021 to Wednesday 7th July 2021
  29,438 signatures

• Require all staff/resident interactions in care homes to be recorded
  Open from Thursday 7th January 2021 to Wednesday 7th July 2021
  46 signatures

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