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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• Provide adequate PPE equipment for medical professionals working with COVID-19
  Open from Wednesday 1st April 2020 to Thursday 1st October 2020
  6,651 signatures

• Make Covid-19 testing available for all healthcare professionals
  Open from Monday 30th March 2020 to Wednesday 30th September 2020
  1,148 signatures

• Allow National Lottery revenue to be used to fund the NHS
  Open from Thursday 26th March 2020 to Saturday 26th September 2020
  139 signatures

• Make asthma prescriptions free for those in need.
  Open from Wednesday 25th March 2020 to Friday 25th September 2020
  192 signatures

• We would like the government to consider social care as equally important to NHS
  Open from Tuesday 24th March 2020 to Thursday 24th September 2020
  44,984 signatures

• Purchase more heart-lung machines to fight Covid-19 coronavirus
  Open from Tuesday 24th March 2020 to Thursday 24th September 2020
  37 signatures

• Reimburse Nursing students who are prematurely called out into the workforce
  Open from Tuesday 24th March 2020 to Thursday 24th September 2020
  159 signatures

• Provide an Emergency fund for Health & Social Care Providers due to COVID-19
  Open from Tuesday 24th March 2020 to Thursday 24th September 2020
  67 signatures

• Negotiate for UK to remain part of the European Medicines Agency after 31 Dec
  Open from Monday 23rd March 2020 to Wednesday 23rd September 2020
  108 signatures

• Create legislation requiring employers to have Mental Health First Aiders
  Open from Monday 23rd March 2020 to Wednesday 23rd September 2020
  30 signatures

• Fund the procurement of additional medical capacity from the private sector
  Open from Monday 23rd March 2020 to Wednesday 23rd September 2020
  15 signatures

• Award Covid-19 medals to all emergency services and involved armed forces
  Open from Monday 23rd March 2020 to Wednesday 23rd September 2020
  4,759 signatures

• Advise people to avoid shaking hands during COVID-19
  Open from Monday 23rd March 2020 to Wednesday 23rd September 2020
  11 signatures

• Provide all pensioners a survival pack containing essentials to last 30 days
  Open from Friday 20th March 2020 to Sunday 20th September 2020
  64 signatures

• Publish estimated figures alongside confirmed cases of covid-19
  Open from Friday 20th March 2020 to Sunday 20th September 2020
  24 signatures

• Launch an online system for people to report self-isolation for Covid-19
  Open from Friday 20th March 2020 to Sunday 20th September 2020
  63 signatures

• The NHS should provide free sanitary products for anyone
  Open from Thursday 19th March 2020 to Saturday 19th September 2020
  132 signatures

• Explore options for making NurOwn available to treat Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
  Open from Thursday 19th March 2020 to Saturday 19th September 2020
  65,433 signatures

• Revoke the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and renationalise the NHS
  Open from Wednesday 18th March 2020 to Friday 18th September 2020
  30,846 signatures

• Commit to requisitioning private hospital beds amid the COVID-19 pandemic
  Open from Wednesday 18th March 2020 to Friday 18th September 2020
  230 signatures

• Hand washing facilities should be made compulsory in all public places
  Open from Tuesday 17th March 2020 to Thursday 17th September 2020
  77 signatures

• Protect the childcare element of Universal Credit from deductions
  Open from Tuesday 17th March 2020 to Thursday 17th September 2020
  49 signatures

• Make sanitary products more easily available for women and girls around the UK
  Open from Tuesday 17th March 2020 to Thursday 17th September 2020
  228 signatures

• Cancel the £224 per year increase to the NHS Surcharge
  Open from Tuesday 17th March 2020 to Thursday 17th September 2020
  188 signatures

• Coronavirus: Free Hand sanitisers for everyone.
  Open from Tuesday 17th March 2020 to Thursday 17th September 2020
  73 signatures

• Prevent late terminations of pregnancies where a baby would have Down's Syndrome
  Open from Tuesday 17th March 2020 to Thursday 17th September 2020
  156 signatures

• Provide publicly accessible testing for the covid-19 virus around the UK now.
  Open from Monday 16th March 2020 to Wednesday 16th September 2020
  2,441 signatures

• Free Prescriptions for diagnosed Mental Health Conditions
  Open from Monday 16th March 2020 to Wednesday 16th September 2020
  326 signatures

• Fund Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT) on the NHS for people with scoliosis
  Open from Monday 16th March 2020 to Wednesday 16th September 2020
  835 signatures

• Extend £5000 grant to medical and dental students
  Open from Monday 16th March 2020 to Wednesday 16th September 2020
  731 signatures

• More funding to ensure the safety of patients in the mental health system
  Open from Monday 16th March 2020 to Wednesday 16th September 2020
  714 signatures

• Allow Paracetamol to be sold in pack sizes of 100-250 again
  Open from Friday 13th March 2020 to Sunday 13th September 2020
  70 signatures

• Improve Maternal Mortality Rates and Health Care for Black Women in the U.K.
  Open from Friday 13th March 2020 to Sunday 13th September 2020
  187,520 signatures

• Businesses to work from home for an appropriate amount of time amidst COVID19
  Open from Friday 13th March 2020 to Sunday 13th September 2020
  2,170 signatures

• Provide the neighbourhood location of each new COVID 19 case on a live feed.
  Open from Thursday 12th March 2020 to Saturday 12th September 2020
  85 signatures

• Provide all nhs Staff with full pay, off sick, if they have coronavirus 19.
  Open from Thursday 12th March 2020 to Saturday 12th September 2020
  206 signatures

• Implement UK lockdown for preventing spread of COVID19
  Open from Thursday 12th March 2020 to Saturday 12th September 2020
  409,474 signatures

• Ban large public gatherings in the UK until the coronavirus has been contained
  Open from Thursday 12th March 2020 to Saturday 12th September 2020
  202 signatures

• Ensure continued Universal health cover by legally committing to a minimum spend
  Open from Thursday 12th March 2020 to Saturday 12th September 2020
  6,273 signatures

• Fund more support for mental health.
  Open from Wednesday 11th March 2020 to Friday 11th September 2020
  197 signatures

• Require recycling systems in NHS clinical areas for plastic healthcare waste
  Open from Wednesday 11th March 2020 to Friday 11th September 2020
  103 signatures

• Enforce Moderate Social Distancing to Contain & Delay Sars-Cov-2/Coronavirus
  Open from Wednesday 11th March 2020 to Friday 11th September 2020
  919 signatures

• Fund better support for women experiencing pregnancy loss and miscarriage
  Open from Wednesday 11th March 2020 to Friday 11th September 2020
  476 signatures

• Fund the creation of a new hospital between Shrewsbury and Telford
  Open from Tuesday 10th March 2020 to Thursday 10th September 2020
  616 signatures

• We ask the Government to have an NHS National Database Centre
  Open from Monday 9th March 2020 to Wednesday 9th September 2020
  152 signatures

• Increase pay for NHS healthcare workers and recognise their work
  Open from Thursday 5th March 2020 to Saturday 5th September 2020
  178,820 signatures

• Fund Kuvan (sapropterin) on the NHS for people with PKU
  Open from Thursday 5th March 2020 to Saturday 5th September 2020
  19,760 signatures

• Review how Social Services operate and bring in procedures to protect parents
  Open from Thursday 5th March 2020 to Saturday 5th September 2020
  2,168 signatures

• Fund research for childhood cancers with the worst survival rates
  Open from Thursday 5th March 2020 to Saturday 5th September 2020
  109,179 signatures

• Make chronic kidney disease testing available for all new-borns.
  Open from Wednesday 4th March 2020 to Friday 4th September 2020
  696 signatures

• Pay Carers an allowance equivalent to a fulltime job at the National Living wage
  Open from Wednesday 4th March 2020 to Friday 4th September 2020
  20,610 signatures

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