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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• Review access to IVF for people with a high BMI
  Open from Monday 23rd August 2021 to Wednesday 23rd February 2022
  2,294 signatures

• Launch an independent inquiry into injustices suffered by BME NHS staff
  Open from Tuesday 7th February 2023 to Monday 7th August 2023
  2,205 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

• Reintroduce masks in public transports and public indoor places
  Open from Wednesday 21st December 2022 to Wednesday 21st June 2023
  2,169 signatures

• Review how Social Services operate and bring in procedures to protect parents
  Open from Thursday 5th March 2020 to Saturday 5th September 2020
  2,167 signatures

• Review all local neurological care for children
  Open from Wednesday 7th October 2020 to Wednesday 7th April 2021
  2,164 signatures

• Address the dire situation for ARFID and other atypical eating disorders needs.
  Open from Thursday 15th October 2020 to Thursday 15th April 2021
  2,138 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
  2,137 signatures

• Increase funding to ensure all adults and children have access to a dentist.
  Open from Monday 24th October 2022 to Monday 24th April 2023
  2,130 signatures

• Make it free for all NHS hospital staff to park at work
  Open from Wednesday 2nd August 2023 to Friday 2nd February 2024
  2,117 signatures

• Fund three rounds of IVF for all couples - end the postcode lottery
  Open from Wednesday 19th July 2023 to Friday 19th January 2024
  2,064 signatures

• Fund liposuction for Lipoedema sufferers on the NHS
  Open from Friday 31st December 2021 to Thursday 30th June 2022
  2,048 signatures

• Make Covid-19 tests freely available to all international travellers at airports
  Open from Monday 24th May 2021 to Wednesday 24th November 2021
  2,021 signatures

• Stop the planned increase to the Immigration Health Surcharge
  Open from Wednesday 22nd April 2020 to Thursday 22nd October 2020
  1,944 signatures

• All dental nurses in England to receive Covid bonus
  Open from Wednesday 1st September 2021 to Tuesday 1st March 2022
  1,939 signatures

• Ban non-medical professionals from giving injections for aesthetic procedures
  Open from Wednesday 6th January 2021 to Tuesday 6th July 2021
  1,938 signatures

• Review the role and regulation of Physician Associates in NHS care
  Opened on Friday 15th March 2024
  1,906 signatures so far

• Make maternity exemption certificates apply from the start of a pregnancy
  Open from Thursday 9th February 2023 to Wednesday 9th August 2023
  1,906 signatures

• Fund increased research into mitochondrial disease
  Open from Tuesday 30th June 2020 to Wednesday 30th December 2020
  1,901 signatures

• Start a second lockdown including closing schools to prevent spread of COVID
  Open from Wednesday 7th October 2020 to Wednesday 7th April 2021
  1,900 signatures

• Review and fund improvements in diagnosis and treatment of cholesteatoma
  Open from Tuesday 19th October 2021 to Tuesday 19th April 2022
  1,898 signatures

• Launch an independent Public Inquiry into Government & NHS Covid-19 spending
  Open from Monday 5th September 2022 to Sunday 19th March 2023
  1,888 signatures

• Ensure all healthcare students are paid while on NHS placements
  Open from Friday 17th March 2023 to Sunday 17th September 2023
  1,884 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

• Extend shielding to June 21st or until all CEV have both vaccinations
  Open from Thursday 25th March 2021 to Saturday 25th September 2021
  1,864 signatures

• Make sanitary waste disposal facilities a requirement in CDM Regulations
  Open from Thursday 21st July 2022 to Saturday 4th February 2023
  1,816 signatures

• Enact law for visiting rights for designated relatives of care home residents
  Open from Tuesday 22nd December 2020 to Tuesday 22nd June 2021
  1,784 signatures

• Pay rise for NHS and care staff
  Open from Friday 22nd May 2020 to Sunday 22nd November 2020
  1,775 signatures

• Reduce or remove corporation tax on Community Interest Companies
  Open from Monday 17th April 2023 to Tuesday 17th October 2023
  1,763 signatures

• Keep Covid Tests Free for Everyone
  Open from Monday 28th February 2022 to Sunday 28th August 2022
  1,743 signatures

• Increase funding for Black, Asian and minority skin tone NHS prosthetics
  Open from Friday 30th April 2021 to Saturday 30th October 2021
  1,740 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

• Protect the title of Sonographer.
  Open from Friday 18th December 2020 to Friday 18th June 2021
  1,720 signatures

• Extend death in service benefits for COVID19 to NHS or care worker's household
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  1,705 signatures

• Do not rollout Covid-19 winter restrictions
  Open from Monday 1st August 2022 to Wednesday 15th February 2023
  1,698 signatures

• Fund a 24-hour NHS mental health helpline and treatment
  Open from Monday 24th May 2021 to Wednesday 24th November 2021
  1,692 signatures

• Fund heart screening in the NHS to avoid young people having cardiac arrests
  Open from Friday 8th July 2022 to Sunday 22nd January 2023
  1,682 signatures

• Increase donations of and funding for COVID 19 vaccines to developing countries
  Open from Monday 13th September 2021 to Sunday 13th March 2022
  1,670 signatures

• Fund breast screening for women aged 28-70
  Opened on Thursday 11th April 2024
  1,658 signatures so far

• Free prescriptions for endometriosis, fibromyalgia, PCOS & chronic pain syndrome
  Open from Thursday 21st October 2021 to Thursday 21st April 2022
  1,656 signatures

• Fund re-opening of Community Hospital Beds for local vulnerable sick people.
  Open from Monday 20th July 2020 to Wednesday 20th January 2021
  1,625 signatures

• Review NHS care for 16 and 17 year olds
  Open from Wednesday 27th April 2022 to Thursday 10th November 2022
  1,603 signatures

• Fund liposuction for Lipoedema sufferers on the NHS
  Open from Tuesday 18th July 2023 to Thursday 18th January 2024
  1,598 signatures

• Make free prescriptions available to people who suffer from IBD.
  Open from Thursday 15th April 2021 to Friday 15th October 2021
  1,570 signatures

• Fund an NHS programme to allow women with Endometriosis to freeze their eggs
  Open from Tuesday 8th February 2022 to Monday 8th August 2022
  1,556 signatures

• Review provision of fully accessible toilets in NHS hospitals
  Open from Friday 17th March 2023 to Sunday 17th September 2023
  1,540 signatures

• Remove requirements to display calories on menus
  Open from Monday 25th April 2022 to Tuesday 8th November 2022
  1,513 signatures

• Provide additional funding to improve diagnosis of Endometriosis
  Open from Tuesday 17th August 2021 to Thursday 17th February 2022
  1,503 signatures

• Make frontline NHS health workers top priority for Covid-19 vaccination
  Open from Thursday 10th December 2020 to Thursday 10th June 2021
  1,501 signatures

• Fund & provide services to allow the vulnerable to shield & re-open the economy
  Open from Wednesday 30th September 2020 to Tuesday 30th March 2021
  1,494 signatures

• Require the NHS to provide single-sex psychiatric wards including intake wards
  Open from Wednesday 19th August 2020 to Friday 19th February 2021
  1,487 signatures

• Provide ring-fenced funding to increase pay for social care professionals
  Open from Wednesday 26th April 2023 to Thursday 26th October 2023
  1,472 signatures

• Investigate performance of private covid-19 travel test providers
  Open from Wednesday 26th May 2021 to Friday 26th November 2021
  1,468 signatures

• Incorporate menopause into the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) for GPs
  Open from Tuesday 18th October 2022 to Tuesday 18th April 2023
  1,452 signatures

• Fund expedited treatment for babies born with tongue tie
  Open from Thursday 21st July 2022 to Saturday 4th February 2023
  1,429 signatures

• Fund tuition fees for student nurses who agree to work in the NHS for two years
  Open from Friday 20th January 2023 to Thursday 20th July 2023
  1,423 signatures

• Include people with Long COVID in the Covid-19 vaccine booster programme
  Open from Monday 21st August 2023 to Wednesday 21st February 2024
  1,407 signatures

• Free prescriptions for everyone with long-term or chronic health conditions
  Open from Monday 3rd October 2022 to Monday 3rd April 2023
  1,371 signatures

• Require separate NHS areas for people experiencing pregnancy complications/loss
  Open from Wednesday 8th February 2023 to Tuesday 8th August 2023
  1,369 signatures

• Provide funding to councils ringfenced for services for the severely disabled
  Open from Monday 21st June 2021 to Tuesday 21st December 2021
  1,351 signatures

• Self isolation rules to be the same for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people
  Open from Monday 26th July 2021 to Wednesday 26th January 2022
  1,349 signatures

• Fund free feminine hygiene products for those aged under 25
  Open from Friday 18th September 2020 to Thursday 18th March 2021
  1,341 signatures

• Require separate NHS areas for people experiencing pregnancy complications/loss
  Opened on Tuesday 9th January 2024
  1,331 signatures so far

• Fund Vitamin D Public Health Campaign - Raise awareness to BAME & at risk groups
  Open from Wednesday 6th January 2021 to Tuesday 6th July 2021
  1,331 signatures

• Extend eligibility for MedEx certificates to people with hyperthyroidism
  Open from Thursday 8th October 2020 to Thursday 8th April 2021
  1,320 signatures

• Fund reconstruction surgery and psychosexual therapy for FGM survivors
  Opened on Monday 5th February 2024
  1,309 signatures so far

• Prioritise the extremely clinically vulnerable for COVID-19 vaccine
  Open from Monday 23rd November 2020 to Sunday 23rd May 2021
  1,306 signatures

• Increase funding to identify new treatments and cures for migraines
  Open from Thursday 9th September 2021 to Wednesday 9th March 2022
  1,304 signatures

• Make it a specific criminal offence to leave a child under five unsupervised
  Open from Thursday 9th March 2023 to Saturday 9th September 2023
  1,297 signatures

• Fund Annual CT Scans to patients who have had or are living with cancer
  Open from Friday 30th April 2021 to Saturday 30th October 2021
  1,261 signatures

• Make parental alienation a criminal offence
  Open from Thursday 19th May 2022 to Saturday 3rd December 2022
  1,259 signatures

• Allow non-cohabiting couples in England to stop distancing (as in Scotland)
  Open from Wednesday 19th August 2020 to Friday 19th February 2021
  1,258 signatures

• Fund appropriate support for children with Speech & Communication Disorders.
  Open from Tuesday 1st December 2020 to Tuesday 1st June 2021
  1,251 signatures

• Increase funding for training and recruiting doctors with menopause expertise
  Open from Friday 14th May 2021 to Sunday 14th November 2021
  1,250 signatures

• Launch a compensation scheme for frontline key workers living with Long Covid
  Open from Tuesday 18th October 2022 to Tuesday 18th April 2023
  1,241 signatures

• Ensure mental health care is available for all children having cancer treatment.
  Open from Wednesday 21st October 2020 to Wednesday 21st April 2021
  1,232 signatures

• Introduce paid leave for employees to attend routine breast screening
  Open from Monday 3rd July 2023 to Wednesday 3rd January 2024
  1,228 signatures

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

• Allow paramedic prescribers to prescribe controlled drugs
  Open from Monday 11th May 2020 to Wednesday 11th November 2020
  1,213 signatures

• Hold a public referendum on whether to sign the WHO pandemic treaty
  Open from Wednesday 4th October 2023 to Thursday 4th April 2024
  1,179 signatures

• Loosen restrictions on visits to vulnerable patients in local lockdown areas
  Open from Tuesday 20th October 2020 to Tuesday 20th April 2021
  1,177 signatures

• Make it a legal requirement that all medical professionals must report incidents
  Open from Monday 17th May 2021 to Wednesday 17th November 2021
  1,161 signatures

• Ensure the NHSX Covid-19 Contact Tracing App Protects User Privacy
  Open from Tuesday 2nd June 2020 to Wednesday 2nd December 2020
  1,160 signatures

• Improve mental health services for young people (children and adolescents)
  Open from Monday 6th April 2020 to Tuesday 6th October 2020
  1,160 signatures

• Fund and offer a COVID-19 tracking wristband as alternative to hotel quarantine
  Open from Wednesday 9th June 2021 to Thursday 9th December 2021
  1,157 signatures

• Set up an independent review into electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) practice.
  Open from Thursday 24th September 2020 to Wednesday 24th March 2021
  1,151 signatures

• Fund cervical screening at 20 as opposed to 25
  Open from Friday 1st April 2022 to Saturday 15th October 2022
  1,149 signatures

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

• Provide funding for surgical correction of Pectus Excavatum
  Open from Monday 20th June 2022 to Tuesday 3rd January 2023
  1,141 signatures

• Prepare for COVID-19 Human Challenge Trials by Building a Challenge Study Center
  Open from Friday 25th September 2020 to Thursday 25th March 2021
  1,138 signatures

• Fund more support for expectant parents who have suffered with baby loss
  Open from Wednesday 21st July 2021 to Friday 21st January 2022
  1,135 signatures

• Exempt vaccinated people from PCR test requirement when travelling to England
  Open from Thursday 20th May 2021 to Saturday 20th November 2021
  1,135 signatures

• Extend access to an NHS funded pension to Retail Community Pharmacists
  Open from Thursday 30th April 2020 to Friday 30th October 2020
  1,134 signatures

• Ensure needs of autistic people are met in any future pandemic response
  Open from Wednesday 13th July 2022 to Friday 27th January 2023
  1,129 signatures

• Investigate NHS Supply Chain performance providing PPE to frontline staff.
  Open from Thursday 14th May 2020 to Saturday 14th November 2020
  1,121 signatures

• Allow all registered Operating Department Practitioners to prescribe medicines
  Open from Wednesday 25th May 2022 to Friday 9th December 2022
  1,113 signatures

• Fund research into antibody response to Covid-19 vaccine for immune suppressed
  Open from Thursday 20th May 2021 to Saturday 20th November 2021
  1,103 signatures

• Allow people to register with more than 1 GP
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  1,101 signatures

• Commission and fund independent research into the efficacy of the RT-PCR test
  Open from Tuesday 20th October 2020 to Tuesday 20th April 2021
  1,090 signatures

• Call for a Public Inquiry into the number of deaths in Care Homes
  Open from Wednesday 3rd June 2020 to Thursday 3rd December 2020
  1,081 signatures

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