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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• Set legal deadlines for NHS to provide medical reports for DWP tribunals
  Open from Thursday 12th June 2025 to Friday 12th December 2025
  35 signatures

• Fund mandatory endometriosis training for all NHS staff
  Open from Thursday 12th June 2025 to Friday 12th December 2025
  987 signatures

• Fund research using postural changes in SBP and HR to detect sepsis
  Open from Wednesday 11th June 2025 to Thursday 11th December 2025
  23 signatures

• Extend the Adoption Support Fund to include adults up to 25 without an EHCP
  Open from Wednesday 11th June 2025 to Thursday 11th December 2025
  190 signatures

• Increase the minimum wage for care workers
  Open from Monday 9th June 2025 to Tuesday 9th December 2025
  96 signatures

• Fund air ambulances
  Open from Monday 9th June 2025 to Tuesday 9th December 2025
  75 signatures

• Funding so every under 1 in A&E, urgent care, paediatrics to have urine sample
  Open from Tuesday 3rd June 2025 to Wednesday 3rd December 2025
  22 signatures

• Require all doctors to receive perimenopause training & GPs to have specialists
  Open from Tuesday 3rd June 2025 to Wednesday 3rd December 2025
  1,714 signatures

• Fund NHS Weight Loss Medication for People with Medication-Linked Weight Gain
  Open from Tuesday 3rd June 2025 to Wednesday 3rd December 2025
  41 signatures

• Make paternity tests compulsory before registering a birth
  Open from Monday 2nd June 2025 to Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  72 signatures

• Add Parkinson's to list of conditions eligible for medical exemption certificate
  Open from Monday 2nd June 2025 to Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  77 signatures

• Fund free or reduced gym prices for under 18's
  Open from Monday 2nd June 2025 to Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  24 signatures

• Lower bowel cancer screening age to 30 & funding for investigation of symptoms
  Open from Monday 2nd June 2025 to Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  12,286 signatures

• More funding for young people struggling with mental health
  Open from Friday 30th May 2025 to Sunday 30th November 2025
  107 signatures

• Fund free parking at NHS hospitals for people over 70
  Open from Friday 30th May 2025 to Sunday 30th November 2025
  69 signatures

• Increase NHS funding for women’s health including hubs and access to care
  Open from Friday 30th May 2025 to Sunday 30th November 2025
  99 signatures

• Review Access to HRT & HRT monitoring for Trans People & guidance and training
  Open from Friday 30th May 2025 to Sunday 30th November 2025
  65 signatures

• Fund the NHS to employ Blood Bikers
  Open from Thursday 29th May 2025 to Saturday 29th November 2025
  61 signatures

• Specialist Hospital Units for Vulnerable Young Adults with learning disabilities
  Open from Wednesday 28th May 2025 to Friday 28th November 2025
  50 signatures

• Increase full-time Carer's Allowance to at least £800 per week
  Open from Wednesday 28th May 2025 to Friday 28th November 2025
  4,376 signatures

• Fund free hospital parking in England for all patients
  Open from Tuesday 27th May 2025 to Thursday 27th November 2025
  267 signatures

• Fund paid rest breaks for all NHS nursing staff
  Open from Friday 23rd May 2025 to Sunday 23rd November 2025
  70 signatures

• Minimum pay of £15/hour for Care Assistants in the private sector and care homes
  Open from Thursday 22nd May 2025 to Saturday 22nd November 2025
  182 signatures

• Do not ban level 7 qualified non-medical aesthetic practitioners from practising
  Open from Thursday 22nd May 2025 to Saturday 22nd November 2025
  77 signatures

• Fund free Meningitis B & ACWY vaccines on the NHS for all
  Open from Monday 19th May 2025 to Wednesday 19th November 2025
  748 signatures

• Require workplaces/schools to allow people to leave due to period pain
  Open from Monday 19th May 2025 to Wednesday 19th November 2025
  97 signatures

• Provide transgender people with more gender options on their birth certificate
  Open from Monday 19th May 2025 to Wednesday 19th November 2025
  53 signatures

• Provide funding to make all asthma-related medication free on prescription
  Open from Monday 19th May 2025 to Wednesday 19th November 2025
  170 signatures

• Fund offer of toxicology test for repetitive symptoms unexplained otherwise
  Open from Friday 16th May 2025 to Sunday 16th November 2025
  2,708 signatures

• Psychosis: increase research funding into diagnosis, prevention and medication
  Open from Thursday 15th May 2025 to Saturday 15th November 2025
  872 signatures

• Require local authorities to add "unmet needs" as a Child Protection category
  Open from Thursday 15th May 2025 to Saturday 15th November 2025
  37 signatures

• Fund monitoring for those advised to stop mental health medication
  Open from Thursday 15th May 2025 to Saturday 15th November 2025
  48 signatures

• Provide funding to put an NHS dentist in all GP surgeries
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  138 signatures

• Make it mandatory to register defibrillators on a national database
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  92 signatures

• Review the death certification reforms which came into place on 9th Sept 2024
  Open from Wednesday 14th May 2025 to Friday 14th November 2025
  27 signatures

• Ban the sale of nicotine products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  53 signatures

• Require schools to teach students about knife crime as part of the curriculum
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  150 signatures

• Regulate the sale and advertisement of nicotine pouches to protect children
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  64 signatures

• Expand who can issue fit notes to include paramedics and other registered HCPS
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  37 signatures

• Fund Soundproof Bereavement Suites & training for staff on maternity wards
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  124 signatures

• Fund training for staff to recognise spiritual experience in mental health care
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  22 signatures

• Fund broader STI testing to include microbiome testing on the NHS
  Open from Monday 12th May 2025 to Wednesday 12th November 2025
  39 signatures

• Review NHS Policies relating to surgery for transgender people
  Open from Friday 9th May 2025 to Sunday 9th November 2025
  53 signatures

• Fund more A&E services
  Open from Wednesday 7th May 2025 to Friday 7th November 2025
  45 signatures

• Fund access to Lecanemab on the NHS
  Open from Wednesday 7th May 2025 to Friday 7th November 2025
  38 signatures

• Require NHS hospitals & clinics to provide after-treatment surveys
  Open from Wednesday 7th May 2025 to Friday 7th November 2025
  368 signatures

• Fund publicly accessible naloxone and adrenaline autoinjectors (EpiPens)
  Open from Wednesday 7th May 2025 to Friday 7th November 2025
  43 signatures

• Oppose revised guidelines on New Medicine Service Subcontracting for Pharmacies
  Open from Tuesday 6th May 2025 to Thursday 6th November 2025
  154 signatures

• Fund free prescriptions for people living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  195 signatures

• Reduce the retirement age for NHS staff to 55
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  43 signatures

• Require medical students to work 5 years minimum in the NHS after graduation
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  103 signatures

• Require companies to pay domiciliary care workers for on-call night shifts
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  22 signatures

• End the Practice of sectioning & Review the Mental Health Act
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  27 signatures

• Allocate funding to allow unpaid carers one night off
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  94 signatures

• Increase funding for research into coeliac disease and treatment options
  Open from Friday 25th April 2025 to Saturday 25th October 2025
  133 signatures

• Mandate that all dentists provide minimum amount of NHS services
  Open from Thursday 24th April 2025 to Friday 24th October 2025
  253 signatures

• Change free childcare scheme to direct payments into Tax-Free Childcare accts
  Open from Thursday 24th April 2025 to Friday 24th October 2025
  1,457 signatures

• Cancel disposable vape ban, mandate plain packaging & allow 18+ to purchase
  Open from Wednesday 23rd April 2025 to Thursday 23rd October 2025
  61 signatures

• Provide Funding to Protect Eating Disorder Services for Under-18s
  Open from Wednesday 23rd April 2025 to Thursday 23rd October 2025
  39 signatures

• Fund every GP to have a dedicated Chronic Pain/Fibromyalgia Practitioner.
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  207 signatures

• Lower the age for invites to regular mammograms to 21
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  119 signatures

• Review and fund mental health support for children under 10
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  26 signatures

• Fund access to abiraterone in England for high-risk prostate cancer patients
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  1,032 signatures

• Fund all GP surgeries to provide blood tests to patients with chronic illnesses
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  737 signatures

• Fund cervical smear tests for women above age 64
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  71 signatures

• Review children's critical care decision law
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  2,914 signatures

• Funding for ASD and ADHD assessments for children within 18 months of referral
  Open from Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Thursday 16th October 2025
  189 signatures

• If assisted suicide Bill passes, create fund for care costs for terminally ill
  Open from Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Thursday 16th October 2025
  43 signatures

• Fund more Physician Associates roles in the NHS
  Open from Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Thursday 16th October 2025
  5,842 signatures

• Increase funding for research and financial support for women with endometriosis
  Open from Tuesday 15th April 2025 to Wednesday 15th October 2025
  287 signatures

• Lower the age for invites to regular mammograms to 40.
  Open from Friday 11th April 2025 to Saturday 11th October 2025
  1,574 signatures

• Review IVF guidelines for women whose partner already has a child
  Open from Wednesday 9th April 2025 to Thursday 9th October 2025
  97 signatures

• Make it a legal requirement to call for an ambulance when required
  Open from Wednesday 9th April 2025 to Thursday 9th October 2025
  70 signatures

• Legalise euthanasia for late onset Dementia
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  441 signatures

• Create a trauma-informed task force to develop a strategy to address trauma
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  3,054 signatures

• Fund free prescriptions for organ transplant patient's lifelong medication
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  67 signatures

• Repeal the Coronavirus Act 2020
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  2,921 signatures

• Funding for Hyperemesis Gravidarum care
  Open from Monday 7th April 2025 to Tuesday 7th October 2025
  11,471 signatures

• Fund research for ketamine treatment for chronic pain
  Open from Monday 7th April 2025 to Tuesday 7th October 2025
  44 signatures

• Raise the minimum age of paracetamol purchase from 16 to 18 years old
  Open from Monday 7th April 2025 to Tuesday 7th October 2025
  31 signatures

• Update on consultation on Overseas Dentist Provisional Registration Route
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  672 signatures

• Provide funding for research and treatment of Hyperemesis Gravidarum
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  113 signatures

• Require personal care in care homes to be done by carers of the same sex
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  51 signatures

• Review support for British International medical graduates & others to join NHS
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  37 signatures

• Fund automated external defibrillators for homes
  Open from Thursday 3rd April 2025 to Friday 3rd October 2025
  17 signatures

• Urgent Action Needed: New Measures to Address Hepatitis B
  Open from Thursday 3rd April 2025 to Friday 3rd October 2025
  100 signatures

• Fund free NHS prescriptions for people with Rheumatoid Arthritis
  Open from Thursday 3rd April 2025 to Friday 3rd October 2025
  54 signatures

• Change the law to tell parents if their child threatens suicide to a doctor
  Open from Wednesday 2nd April 2025 to Thursday 2nd October 2025
  1,541 signatures

• Fund more early intervention support for people struggling with mental health
  Open from Wednesday 2nd April 2025 to Thursday 2nd October 2025
  377 signatures

• Fund more pregnancy scans past 20 weeks on the NHS
  Open from Wednesday 2nd April 2025 to Thursday 2nd October 2025
  42 signatures

• Require the use of sexed language in government-funded health communications
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  12,134 signatures

• Review assessment of and guidelines about ARFID in ASD children
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  38 signatures

• Fund a full bursary and maintenance fund to train Learning Disability Nurses
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  3,266 signatures

• Funding to reduce long waiting lists for urgent cardiology appointments
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  40 signatures

• Fund more financial support for Counselling Psychology Doctorate
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  459 signatures

• Fund treatment for R-CPD on the NHS
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  317 signatures

• Amend false and misleading information offence under Care Act 2014
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  35 signatures

• Fund more staff training and better facilities in psychiatric hospitals
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  10,400 signatures

• Fund more shingles vaccines. Make it available for those age 60+
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  31 signatures

• Fund more support for student midwives
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  161 signatures

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