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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• Commission a Review of Practice-based Research Evidence of Yoga
  Open from Thursday 23rd November 2023 to Thursday 23rd May 2024
  904 signatures

• Remove restrictions on promotional deals and discounts for baby formula
  Open from Friday 24th November 2023 to Friday 24th May 2024
  227 signatures

• Introduce mandatory regulation for non-medic aesthetic practitioners
  Open from Monday 27th November 2023 to Monday 27th May 2024
  574 signatures

• Restrict sale of vapes to 21 year olds with valid identification
  Open from Monday 27th November 2023 to Monday 27th May 2024
  57 signatures

• Increase financial support for children in care and care leavers
  Open from Tuesday 28th November 2023 to Tuesday 28th May 2024
  36 signatures

• Review healthcare provision for people moved into temporary accommodation
  Open from Thursday 30th November 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  70 signatures

• Extend the HRT Prescription Prepayment Certificate to male HRT therapy
  Open from Monday 4th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  17 signatures

• Invest £16 million into improving dementia diagnostics
  Open from Monday 4th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  330 signatures

• Fund breast cancer screening from the age of 40
  Open from Wednesday 6th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  12,601 signatures

• Provide funding to reduce NHS waiting times for surgery for children
  Open from Thursday 7th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  72 signatures

• Allow registered Clinical Scientists to prescribe medication
  Open from Thursday 7th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  49 signatures

• Provide Funding for Neurodiversity Diagnostic Assessments in State Schools
  Open from Monday 11th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  908 signatures

• Make the exclusion zones for pro-life activists larger
  Open from Tuesday 12th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  31 signatures

• Investigate NHS shortages of weight-loss injections
  Open from Thursday 14th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  15 signatures

• Require bowel care policies and specialist bowel care at all NHS hospitals
  Open from Thursday 14th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  8,933 signatures

• Launch a review of infant care within NHS England
  Open from Thursday 14th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  538 signatures

• Provide compensation for private dental costs due to shortage of NHS dentists
  Open from Friday 15th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  135 signatures

• Review how to turn MHRA into a fully transparent, patient first regulator
  Open from Monday 18th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  13,194 signatures

• Expand the list of medicines that paramedics can order and administer
  Open from Monday 18th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  44 signatures

• Take forward the Mental Health Bill to reform the Mental Health Act 1983
  Open from Monday 18th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  85 signatures

• Provide more funding for treatment of sickle cell disease
  Open from Tuesday 19th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  42 signatures

• Fund increased support for Avoidance Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
  Open from Wednesday 20th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  176 signatures

• Allow ARRS funding to be used for practice nurses and GPs
  Open from Thursday 21st December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  11,174 signatures

• Ban smoking in towns and cities outside of designated areas
  Open from Thursday 21st December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  46 signatures

• NHS dental nurses to be entitled to an NHS pension
  Open from Friday 22nd December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  3,216 signatures

• Fund access to free dentistry through mobile dentists for people in care homes
  Open from Friday 22nd December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  55 signatures

• Require dose counters on SABA metered dose inhalers (MDIs)
  Open from Friday 22nd December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  85 signatures

• Fund increased care and support for people with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
  Open from Friday 29th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  4,048 signatures

• Consider chronic UTIs in Women’s Health Strategy
  Open from Friday 29th December 2023 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  3,887 signatures

• Increase funding for treatment and research into endometriosis
  Open from Tuesday 2nd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  10,781 signatures

• Give carers a right to paid leave to support attendance at medical appointments
  Open from Thursday 4th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  295 signatures

• Require nurses who are educated in menopause working in every healthcare setting
  Open from Thursday 4th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  511 signatures

• Exclude benefits from financial assessments for contributions to social care
  Open from Thursday 4th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  74 signatures

• Make transplant patients eligible for free NHS prescriptions
  Open from Friday 5th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  102 signatures

• Hold a public inquiry into money made by suppliers of PPE during Covid-19
  Open from Friday 5th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  184 signatures

• Offer COVID-19 boosters to all over 50s, asthmatics and long Covid sufferers
  Open from Monday 8th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  864 signatures

• Give the Humanitarian Medal to all frontline ambulance staff for COVID response
  Open from Monday 8th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  101 signatures

• Require separate NHS areas for people experiencing pregnancy complications/loss
  Open from Tuesday 9th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  1,345 signatures

• Fund thyroid testing for all pregnant women
  Open from Thursday 11th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  15 signatures

• Make reproductive status a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010
  Open from Thursday 11th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  134 signatures

• Provide funding for barriers on bridges to prevent suicide
  Open from Friday 12th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  262 signatures

• Increase the pay of all NHS staff by the same percentage
  Open from Friday 12th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  365 signatures

• Review the safety of Venoarterial Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VA ECMO)
  Open from Monday 15th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  115 signatures

• Ban the Sale of Disposable Vapes
  Open from Tuesday 16th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  64 signatures

• Hold an independent inquiry into the management of the NHS since 2000
  Open from Wednesday 17th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  99 signatures

• Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings
  Open from Wednesday 17th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  4,164 signatures

• Give NHS dentists Units of Dental Activity (UDAs) for missed appointments
  Open from Thursday 18th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  20 signatures

• Offer NHS doctors a 25% pay rise
  Open from Thursday 18th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  52 signatures

• Review how the NHS responds to health concerns raised by family members
  Open from Friday 19th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  27 signatures

• Increase funding to improve access to NHS dental services in England
  Open from Monday 22nd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  449 signatures

• Don't ban disposable vapes
  Open from Monday 22nd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  123 signatures

• Review calculation for Child Maintenance Payments based on contact arrangements
  Open from Monday 22nd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  19 signatures

• Link Child Benefit to inflation and increase thresholds for high income charge
  Open from Monday 22nd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  715 signatures

• Introduce mental health ambulances as an additional emergency service
  Open from Monday 22nd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  31 signatures

• Decriminalise abortion to protect rights of women and girls to access healthcare
  Open from Tuesday 23rd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  139 signatures

• Amend devolution settlement for Wales to remove powers over healthcare
  Open from Tuesday 23rd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  19 signatures

• Scrap student fees for nursing, midwifery and paramedic students
  Open from Tuesday 23rd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  54 signatures

• Ban healthcare workers from going on strike
  Open from Tuesday 23rd January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  26 signatures

• Provide funding for STI screening at the beginning of a pregnancy
  Open from Wednesday 24th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  33,014 signatures

• Review the use of forceps for the delivery of babies
  Open from Wednesday 24th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  25 signatures

• Review NHS mental health support for new fathers and birth partners
  Open from Tuesday 30th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  179 signatures

• Ban vaping in enclosed workplaces, public buildings and on public transport
  Open from Tuesday 30th January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  118 signatures

• Compensate all infected blood victims and their families without delay
  Open from Wednesday 31st January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  2,804 signatures

• Require daily check-ins on children when social services are supervising family
  Open from Wednesday 31st January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  29 signatures

• Increase funding to reduce the waiting times for Autism Diagnoses
  Open from Wednesday 31st January 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  194 signatures

• Grant CMS more powers to recoup unpaid child maintenance
  Open from Thursday 1st February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  34 signatures

• Require hospitals to offer private rooms to vulnerable patients
  Open from Thursday 1st February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  24 signatures

• Provide more funding to support postgraduate physician associate students
  Open from Thursday 1st February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  124 signatures

• Provide funding to make hypnotherapy more widely available on the NHS
  Open from Friday 2nd February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  74 signatures

• Fund reconstruction surgery and psychosexual therapy for FGM survivors
  Open from Monday 5th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  1,408 signatures

• Terminate parental rights from parents found to have abused children
  Open from Tuesday 6th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  65 signatures

• Make it illegal to smoke on hospital grounds
  Open from Thursday 8th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  130 signatures

• Introduce safe haven baby boxes in the UK
  Open from Thursday 8th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  51 signatures

• Ban all vapes and e-cigarettes
  Open from Friday 9th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  76 signatures

• Fund a defibrillator in all healthcare settings and care homes
  Open from Tuesday 13th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  55 signatures

• Don’t ban flavoured e-liquids for e-cigarettes
  Open from Wednesday 14th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  54,867 signatures

• Fund free formula for babies and free sanitary products
  Open from Wednesday 14th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  37 signatures

• New rules for manufacturers of medical device implants
  Open from Friday 16th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  424 signatures

• Require hospitals to permit partners to stay overnight with new birth givers
  Open from Friday 16th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  2,821 signatures

• Fund free prescriptions and more benefits for those with chronic health problems
  Open from Friday 16th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  33 signatures

• Ensure that benefit assessors are trained in autism
  Open from Friday 16th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  189 signatures

• Require medical training and regulation of everyone offering ear wax removal
  Open from Friday 16th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  636 signatures

• Increase funding for men's mental health
  Open from Monday 19th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  38 signatures

• Review plan for care costs so people don’t have to sell their homes
  Open from Monday 19th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  59 signatures

• Fund free parking for NHS staff whilst on shift
  Open from Monday 19th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  203 signatures

• Require random drug testing for all NHS doctors and nurses
  Open from Tuesday 20th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  35 signatures

• Increase funding for research into eating disorders
  Open from Tuesday 20th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  116 signatures

• Allocate Sufficient Funding for the Eradication of Life Ending Chronic UTIs
  Open from Thursday 22nd February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  33 signatures

• Inquiry into workplace culture and investigations within maternity services
  Open from Monday 26th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  895 signatures

• Government should provide more funding for menopause research
  Open from Tuesday 27th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  392 signatures

• Conduct a review into stigma in mental health care
  Open from Tuesday 27th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  21 signatures

• Review mental health training for NHS workers
  Open from Thursday 29th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  373 signatures

• Children in care to have counsellor automatically assigned
  Open from Friday 1st March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  31 signatures

• Authorise Polygraph and fMRI test results in sexual assault court evidence
  Open from Friday 1st March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  27 signatures

• Make ill-treatment or neglect of an adult family member a specific offence
  Open from Monday 4th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  35 signatures

• Increase investment in Speech and Language Therapy.
  Open from Tuesday 5th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  13,188 signatures

• Review prescribing of topical corticosteroids
  Open from Tuesday 5th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  4,078 signatures

• Remove VAT on Defibrillators, and related accessories and consumables
  Open from Tuesday 5th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  50 signatures

• Remove Section 1 (D) of the Abortion Law 1967
  Open from Wednesday 6th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  15 signatures

• Fund a screening program for men to detect Prostate Cancer
  Open from Wednesday 6th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  766 signatures

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