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 funding for nit nurses to visit schools
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  40 signatures

• Provide funding to make more NHS dentists available
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  849 signatures

• Require care homes to have a 1 to 5 staff to resident ratio
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  39 signatures

• Establish a Royal Commission on assisted dying
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  1,473 signatures

• Make Mental Health Assistant Practitioners (MHAPs) regulated professionals
  Open from Wednesday 26th March 2025 to Friday 26th September 2025
  36 signatures

• More direct communication between the NHS and the Government & Parliament
  Open from Wednesday 26th March 2025 to Friday 26th September 2025
  113 signatures

• Fund more doctor postgraduate training posts in the NHS
  Open from Tuesday 25th March 2025 to Thursday 25th September 2025
  553 signatures

• Allocate annual funding to accelerate breakthroughs in MND research
  Open from Tuesday 25th March 2025 to Thursday 25th September 2025
  4,848 signatures

• Stop 25p age addition for pensioners 80+, instead fund the NHS for elderly
  Open from Tuesday 25th March 2025 to Thursday 25th September 2025
  37 signatures

• Introduce publicly accessible naloxone distribution points in high risk areas
  Open from Tuesday 25th March 2025 to Thursday 25th September 2025
  34 signatures

• Abolish tuition fees for healthcare courses and pay students on NHS placements
  Open from Monday 24th March 2025 to Wednesday 24th September 2025
  8,588 signatures

• More funding for GPs to provide face-to-face appointments and walk-in clinics
  Open from Monday 24th March 2025 to Wednesday 24th September 2025
  48 signatures

• Increase funding for ARFID treatment
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  1,865 signatures

• Support Men’s Mental Health: End the Stigma, Expand Support, and Save Lives
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  69 signatures

• Funding for Gastric Pacemaker Treatment for Gastroparesis Patients
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  941 signatures

• Launch a Government Alcohol Awareness Campaign to Educate the Public
  Open from Wednesday 19th March 2025 to Friday 19th September 2025
  52 signatures

• Make it a criminal offence for under 18s to vape or smoke
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  59 signatures

• Fund training & trauma assessments post discharge from mental health units
  Open from Monday 17th March 2025 to Wednesday 17th September 2025
  288 signatures

• Review medical care for those with temporomandibular disorders
  Open from Monday 17th March 2025 to Wednesday 17th September 2025
  27 signatures

• Fund cannabis prescriptions for fibromyalgia and other pain conditions
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  257 signatures

• Review how to close the gender health gap and improve women's healthcare
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  175 signatures

• Implement a ‘Statutory Dependents Pay’ for being off with your sick child
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  181 signatures

• Fund improvements for young people with SEND who visit GP surgeries
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  139 signatures

• Fully implement all recommendations of the 2009 Laming Report immediately
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  37 signatures

• Legal requirement to test and record blood group at birth for medical records
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  42 signatures

• Make AED’s (Automated External Defibrillator) mandatory in public town centres
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  41 signatures

• Fund school dentists for every school
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  68 signatures

• Regulate & License the Non-Surgical Cosmetic Sector
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  99 signatures

• End the UK’s membership of the World Health Organisation
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  265 signatures

• Provide funding for a review of the efficacy of Pineal Gland Surgery
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  2,004 signatures

• Broaden eligibility for de facto adoptions from non-Hague countries
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  23 signatures

• Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter"
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  113,436 signatures

• Levy vaccine manufacturers to fund Vaccine Damage Payments and remove indemnity
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  38 signatures

• Do not restrict vape flavours
  Open from Friday 7th March 2025 to Sunday 7th September 2025
  12,887 signatures

• Extend the 2007 workplace smoking ban and 2015 car smoking ban to include vapes
  Open from Wednesday 5th March 2025 to Friday 5th September 2025
  93 signatures

• New offence for giving injectable aesthetics without qualifications & insurance
  Open from Wednesday 5th March 2025 to Friday 5th September 2025
  36 signatures

• Ban chewing tobacco to prevent cancer and litter
  Open from Wednesday 5th March 2025 to Friday 5th September 2025
  351 signatures

• Review the affordability of care homes
  Open from Tuesday 4th March 2025 to Thursday 4th September 2025
  66 signatures

• Fund access to Holistic Needs Assessment for all NHS cancer patients & follow-up
  Open from Monday 3rd March 2025 to Wednesday 3rd September 2025
  2,605 signatures

• Provide funding for all pregnant women to have an ultrasound for CHD
  Open from Monday 3rd March 2025 to Wednesday 3rd September 2025
  803 signatures

• Ban all tobacco cigarettes completely.
  Open from Monday 3rd March 2025 to Wednesday 3rd September 2025
  47 signatures

• Fund free wheelchairs for people who need them
  Open from Friday 28th February 2025 to Thursday 28th August 2025
  125 signatures

• Review and increase the amount of support care leavers get post-18
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  43 signatures

• Ban private providers from providing home and social care
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  68 signatures

• Review care for sickle cell patients within the NHS
  Open from Tuesday 25th February 2025 to Monday 25th August 2025
  3,898 signatures

• Ban Applied Behaviour Analysis Therapy designed to reduce Autistic Stimming
  Open from Tuesday 25th February 2025 to Monday 25th August 2025
  179 signatures

• Government to create a national ID card for disabled people and carers.
  Open from Friday 21st February 2025 to Thursday 21st August 2025
  117 signatures

• Increase funding for IVF & fertility treatments to increase access.
  Open from Thursday 20th February 2025 to Wednesday 20th August 2025
  4,492 signatures

• Fund the RSV injection for people over 79, especially the vulnerable.
  Open from Thursday 20th February 2025 to Wednesday 20th August 2025
  32 signatures

• Provide funding for at least 1 NHS ADHD specialist clinic in each county
  Open from Wednesday 19th February 2025 to Tuesday 19th August 2025
  76 signatures

• Fund an information campaign for GPs on the 2 prostate cancer referral routes
  Open from Monday 17th February 2025 to Sunday 17th August 2025
  183 signatures

• Archie’s Army Law - Rights for parents with a child in critical care by injury
  Open from Monday 17th February 2025 to Sunday 17th August 2025
  2,535 signatures

• Review NHS Compensation for cases of negligence
  Open from Friday 14th February 2025 to Thursday 14th August 2025
  72 signatures

• Reduce minimum retirement age for ambulance staff to 55
  Open from Friday 14th February 2025 to Thursday 14th August 2025
  12,741 signatures

• Deny free NHS healthcare to anyone found to smoke or vape.
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  28 signatures

• Increase funding for medical research on women's anatomy
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  244 signatures

• Fund free prescriptions and eye tests for carers
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  49 signatures

• Allow chemists to dispense prescriptions without Pharmacist on site
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  39 signatures

• Do not allow any private companies to be involved in delivering NHS care
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  49 signatures

• Provide funding to separate Gynaecology/women’s health from Maternity services
  Open from Wednesday 12th February 2025 to Tuesday 12th August 2025
  328 signatures

• Fund increased access to menstrual products to address period poverty
  Open from Wednesday 12th February 2025 to Tuesday 12th August 2025
  194 signatures

• Ensure that student nurses are paid for their placement hours
  Open from Tuesday 11th February 2025 to Monday 11th August 2025
  4,247 signatures

• Fund screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) in pregnancy and further research.
  Open from Monday 10th February 2025 to Sunday 10th August 2025
  111 signatures

• Change the law to allow short-term Blue Badges
  Open from Friday 7th February 2025 to Thursday 7th August 2025
  96 signatures

• We want the Government to grant birth parents the right to have adoptions review
  Open from Thursday 6th February 2025 to Wednesday 6th August 2025
  38 signatures

• Lift restrictions on prescribing puberty blockers to trans children.
  Open from Wednesday 5th February 2025 to Tuesday 5th August 2025
  14,272 signatures

• Deduct private health care charges from NI contributions.
  Open from Wednesday 5th February 2025 to Tuesday 5th August 2025
  26 signatures

• Conduct a review into the long-term effect of section 28
  Open from Wednesday 5th February 2025 to Tuesday 5th August 2025
  359 signatures

• Cap private dental charges
  Open from Tuesday 4th February 2025 to Monday 4th August 2025
  99 signatures

• Review the issuing of hormone prescriptions for transgender individuals by GPs
  Open from Tuesday 4th February 2025 to Monday 4th August 2025
  2,075 signatures

• Provide extra emergency funding into adult social care
  Open from Monday 3rd February 2025 to Sunday 3rd August 2025
  91 signatures

• Review access to hysterectomies for women with PMDD & chronic conditions
  Open from Monday 3rd February 2025 to Sunday 3rd August 2025
  61 signatures

• Spend more money on research into the effects of vaping.
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  111 signatures

• Require care providers to reimburse care workers for use of personal vehicles
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  73 signatures

• Allow self-certification of illness for up to 28 days, rather than 7 days.
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  65 signatures

• Increase funding for mental health services for the LGBT+Q community
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  162 signatures

• Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: fund training and facilities
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  21,224 signatures

• Require all public places to have toilets accessible with a medical card
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  331 signatures

• Fund the NHS to create a national database for NHS medical records
  Open from Tuesday 28th January 2025 to Monday 28th July 2025
  613 signatures

• Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services
  Open from Tuesday 28th January 2025 to Monday 28th July 2025
  83,220 signatures

• Fund services for women 16-26 who may have suffered sexual abuse trauma
  Open from Monday 27th January 2025 to Sunday 27th July 2025
  54 signatures

• Make not having a fire/smoke alarm in a home illegal
  Open from Monday 27th January 2025 to Sunday 27th July 2025
  42 signatures

• Fund free regular prescriptions for mental health patients
  Open from Wednesday 22nd January 2025 to Tuesday 22nd July 2025
  128 signatures

• Fund improved care and support for individuals with FASD.
  Open from Tuesday 21st January 2025 to Monday 21st July 2025
  2,461 signatures

• Require all healthcare environments to be wheelchair accessible
  Open from Tuesday 21st January 2025 to Monday 21st July 2025
  149 signatures

• Set out a detailed plan to improve palliative care
  Open from Tuesday 21st January 2025 to Monday 21st July 2025
  52 signatures

• Launch an inquiry into excess deaths in 2020-2023
  Open from Monday 20th January 2025 to Sunday 20th July 2025
  41 signatures

• Provide funding to support Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening for Disabled Women
  Open from Monday 20th January 2025 to Sunday 20th July 2025
  3,294 signatures

• Regulate all mental health Therapists
  Open from Monday 20th January 2025 to Sunday 20th July 2025
  181 signatures

• Require CCTV in all care settings.
  Open from Friday 17th January 2025 to Thursday 17th July 2025
  554 signatures

• Government to review NHS agenda for change.
  Open from Friday 17th January 2025 to Thursday 17th July 2025
  156 signatures

• Increase funding for transgender healthcare to reduce waiting times & train GPs
  Open from Tuesday 14th January 2025 to Monday 14th July 2025
  6,318 signatures

• Fund access to GLP-1 medications through the NHS for women with PCOS
  Open from Tuesday 14th January 2025 to Monday 14th July 2025
  840 signatures

• Make it illegal to smoke in a home if there are children living in it
  Open from Monday 13th January 2025 to Sunday 13th July 2025
  65 signatures

• Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards
  Open from Thursday 9th January 2025 to Wednesday 9th July 2025
  26,750 signatures

• We are petitioning for a National Referendum on Assisted Dying
  Open from Thursday 9th January 2025 to Wednesday 9th July 2025
  11,385 signatures

• Review the prescribing and sale of topical corticosteroids
  Open from Wednesday 8th January 2025 to Tuesday 8th July 2025
  2,106 signatures

• Introduce legislation restricting nonsurgical aesthetics to medical doctors only
  Open from Tuesday 7th January 2025 to Monday 7th July 2025
  2,691 signatures

• Review regulation around hysterectomies in private hospitals
  Open from Tuesday 7th January 2025 to Monday 7th July 2025
  1,209 signatures

• Fund a national checkup scheme at menopause in England
  Open from Tuesday 7th January 2025 to Monday 7th July 2025
  51 signatures

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