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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• Offer non-invasive saliva covid tests for children instead of nasal swabs
  Open from Tuesday 12th October 2021 to Tuesday 12th April 2022
  1,077 signatures

• Increase funding for NHS mental health services
  Open from Thursday 1st April 2021 to Friday 1st October 2021
  1,074 signatures

• Fund preventative mental health sessions in schools and workplaces
  Open from Thursday 10th December 2020 to Thursday 10th June 2021
  1,059 signatures

• Protect Trans People’s Right to Treatment on Gender-Appropriate NHS Wards
  Open from Monday 23rd October 2023 to Tuesday 23rd April 2024
  1,017 signatures

• Add Construction workers to the priority list for the COVID-19 Vaccine
  Open from Thursday 14th January 2021 to Wednesday 14th July 2021
  1,014 signatures

• Appoint an Adult Mental Health Ambassador and Adult Mental Health Group
  Open from Tuesday 9th August 2022 to Thursday 23rd February 2023
  1,007 signatures

• Review access to neuropsychology services
  Opened on Tuesday 21st November 2023
  992 signatures so far

• Review how babies with Tongue Tie are diagnosed and treated
  Open from Friday 5th March 2021 to Sunday 5th September 2021
  984 signatures

• Increase funding for treatment of women with chronic gynaecological conditions
  Open from Wednesday 8th June 2022 to Thursday 22nd December 2022
  974 signatures

• Extend support bubbles to include those living on their own with dependents.
  Open from Wednesday 30th September 2020 to Tuesday 30th March 2021
  972 signatures

• Provide funding so the NHS can prescribe wigs to all patients with Alopecia
  Opened on Monday 25th March 2024
  969 signatures so far

• Prioritise teachers for covid booster vaccinations
  Open from Tuesday 6th July 2021 to Thursday 6th January 2022
  953 signatures

• Launch a campaign on HIV to tell the public that Undetectable = Untransmittable
  Open from Tuesday 4th July 2023 to Thursday 4th January 2024
  951 signatures

• Remove 24 week gestation requirement for a baby loss to be registered
  Open from Tuesday 18th May 2021 to Thursday 18th November 2021
  944 signatures

• Give parents a right to paid leave when a child has a terminal illness
  Open from Thursday 25th August 2022 to Saturday 11th March 2023
  942 signatures

• Fund increased research into MCAS, PoTS and EDS and improved patient care
  Open from Tuesday 4th April 2023 to Wednesday 4th October 2023
  941 signatures

• Fund better mental health support for children with ASD
  Open from Thursday 10th September 2020 to Wednesday 10th March 2021
  940 signatures

• More funded research to be done on Adenomyosis
  Open from Monday 19th December 2022 to Monday 19th June 2023
  935 signatures

• Give all existing Year 13 students the choice to be fully vaccinated for uni.
  Open from Tuesday 13th July 2021 to Thursday 13th January 2022
  932 signatures

• Provide dedicated funding for smaller GP surgeries
  Opened on Wednesday 10th April 2024
  929 signatures so far

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

• Require agreement with NHS authorities to consent to new developments
  Open from Friday 7th May 2021 to Sunday 7th November 2021
  907 signatures

• Fund free NHS testing for adults for Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dyspraxia
  Open from Wednesday 8th September 2021 to Tuesday 8th March 2022
  905 signatures

• Commission a Review of Practice-based Research Evidence of Yoga
  Opened on Thursday 23rd November 2023
  902 signatures so far

• Reopen UK Table Dancing Clubs for Autumn 2020
  Open from Wednesday 30th September 2020 to Tuesday 30th March 2021
  901 signatures

• Provide funding to lower the cervical cancer screening age to 18
  Open from Tuesday 28th September 2021 to Monday 28th March 2022
  898 signatures

• Fund regular breast screenings from age 18
  Open from Monday 22nd March 2021 to Wednesday 22nd September 2021
  892 signatures

• Tighter restrictions on companies marketing vape kits at children & young people
  Open from Monday 4th July 2022 to Wednesday 18th January 2023
  885 signatures

• Fund research into better understanding and treating Restless Legs Syndrome.
  Open from Monday 14th December 2020 to Monday 14th June 2021
  878 signatures

• Fund more support and awareness for pelvic floor prolapses in women
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  876 signatures

• Increase funding to research treatment and medication for Long Covid sufferers
  Open from Tuesday 11th January 2022 to Monday 11th July 2022
  866 signatures

• Fund an autism awareness campaign
  Open from Monday 2nd October 2023 to Tuesday 2nd April 2024
  864 signatures

• Provide funding to reduce NHS waiting times for cancer reconstruction surgery
  Open from Monday 24th October 2022 to Monday 24th April 2023
  861 signatures

• Fund a national awareness campaign for NMOSD
  Open from Wednesday 23rd February 2022 to Tuesday 23rd August 2022
  856 signatures

• Offer COVID-19 boosters to all over 50s, asthmatics and long Covid sufferers
  Opened on Monday 8th January 2024
  854 signatures so far

• Introduce 'Grow Your Own' Laws for Legal Medical Cannabis Patients
  Opened on Monday 8th April 2024
  846 signatures so far

• Fund additional testing for couples who have recurrent miscarriages
  Open from Wednesday 16th August 2023 to Friday 16th February 2024
  841 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

• Make Covid vaccines available privately to all ages
  Open from Thursday 22nd September 2022 to Wednesday 22nd March 2023
  828 signatures

• Review the safety of mesh rectopexy surgery
  Open from Thursday 5th August 2021 to Saturday 5th February 2022
  828 signatures

• Require period products list all materials/chemical/ingredients on packaging
  Open from Monday 22nd August 2022 to Wednesday 8th March 2023
  825 signatures

• Increase funding for NHS gender dysphoria diagnosis and treatment
  Open from Friday 7th July 2023 to Sunday 7th January 2024
  820 signatures

• Fund routine bowel screening from the age of 50
  Open from Tuesday 14th December 2021 to Tuesday 14th June 2022
  818 signatures

• Fund free NHS assessments for learning difficulties for adults
  Open from Wednesday 25th November 2020 to Tuesday 25th May 2021
  791 signatures

• Increase funding for treatment of Raise awareness on gastroparesis on the NHS
  Open from Thursday 22nd April 2021 to Friday 22nd October 2021
  790 signatures

• Allow trained Paramedics to prescribe controlled drugs
  Open from Monday 23rd May 2022 to Wednesday 7th December 2022
  789 signatures

• Fund routine breast cancer screening from the age of 30
  Open from Wednesday 9th August 2023 to Friday 9th February 2024
  788 signatures

• Allow deaths to be registered remotely
  Open from Thursday 25th August 2022 to Saturday 11th March 2023
  786 signatures

• Require pre-inquest investigation into all unexplained NHS mental health deaths
  Open from Monday 28th September 2020 to Sunday 28th March 2021
  786 signatures

• Fund research and awareness campaign to help Adenomyosis patients
  Open from Tuesday 27th October 2020 to Tuesday 27th April 2021
  785 signatures

• Provide Funding for Neurodiversity Diagnostic Assessments in State Schools
  Opened on Monday 11th December 2023
  769 signatures so far

• Increase funding for NHS services in rural areas
  Open from Tuesday 7th February 2023 to Monday 7th August 2023
  762 signatures

• Fund creation of a new central hospital for East Kent in the City of Canterbury
  Open from Thursday 17th September 2020 to Wednesday 17th March 2021
  758 signatures

• Fund at least one round of IVF regardless of partner's children
  Open from Friday 15th January 2021 to Thursday 15th July 2021
  754 signatures

• Increase funding for NHS transgender services
  Open from Friday 6th August 2021 to Sunday 6th February 2022
  752 signatures

• Make euthanasia legal in the UK for people dying of terminal illnesses
  Open from Friday 6th November 2020 to Thursday 6th May 2021
  746 signatures

• Increased funding/support to Children and Young People's mental health services.
  Open from Tuesday 10th November 2020 to Monday 10th May 2021
  743 signatures

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

• Relax Government guidance on care home visits during Covid-19
  Open from Monday 5th October 2020 to Monday 5th April 2021
  723 signatures

• Increase Funding for Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment on the NHS
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  721 signatures

• Fund a £500 bonus for social care workers in England
  Open from Friday 26th November 2021 to Thursday 26th May 2022
  718 signatures

• Fund free Diagnostic Assessments for Dyslexia for all Children aged 7-19
  Open from Wednesday 29th March 2023 to Friday 29th September 2023
  714 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

• Require Coroners to record when a death resulted from using a prescription drug
  Open from Tuesday 28th July 2020 to Thursday 28th January 2021
  704 signatures

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

• Link Child Benefit to inflation and increase thresholds for high income charge
  Opened on Monday 22nd January 2024
  691 signatures so far

• Fund checks for the menopause for over 40s
  Opened on Wednesday 1st November 2023
  691 signatures so far

• Increase funding to ensure all adults in England have access to an NHS dentist
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  687 signatures

• Reduce Breast Cancer screening age to 30
  Open from Tuesday 13th December 2022 to Tuesday 13th June 2023
  686 signatures

• Increase minimum wage for care home workers to £15 an hour
  Opened on Tuesday 7th November 2023
  684 signatures so far

• Include uni lecturers/students in the priority groups for covid vaccinations
  Open from Monday 30th November 2020 to Sunday 30th May 2021
  678 signatures

• Extend eligibility for MedEx certificates to people with POI who need HRT
  Open from Monday 23rd November 2020 to Sunday 23rd May 2021
  673 signatures

• Fund free IVF for women with Endometriosis and are in a same sex relationship
  Open from Thursday 5th May 2022 to Saturday 19th November 2022
  672 signatures

• Change the policy on discharging covid 19 hospital patients into care homes.
  Open from Tuesday 19th May 2020 to Thursday 19th November 2020
  670 signatures

• Review the Equality Act as part of work on the National Disability Strategy.
  Open from Friday 17th April 2020 to Saturday 17th October 2020
  668 signatures

• Require all CCGs in England to offer 3 rounds of IVF
  Open from Monday 23rd November 2020 to Sunday 23rd May 2021
  667 signatures

• Give women a legal right to have two birthing partners at births
  Open from Monday 26th July 2021 to Wednesday 26th January 2022
  666 signatures

• All medical and care professionals to be trained in BSL
  Open from Friday 4th December 2020 to Friday 4th June 2021
  658 signatures

• Require epinephrine autoinjectors on all flights into and out of the UK
  Opened on Wednesday 6th March 2024
  652 signatures so far

• Voucher scheme for people with diagnosed dietary requirements
  Open from Monday 5th June 2023 to Tuesday 5th December 2023
  649 signatures

• Make piercing children’s ears under the age of 5 illegal
  Open from Thursday 26th August 2021 to Saturday 26th February 2022
  641 signatures

• Allow nonbinary people in England and Wales to order coronavirus tests
  Open from Monday 12th October 2020 to Monday 12th April 2021
  637 signatures

• Make long covid an occupational illness
  Open from Wednesday 10th March 2021 to Friday 10th September 2021
  636 signatures

• Require medical training and regulation of everyone offering ear wax removal
  Opened on Friday 16th February 2024
  619 signatures so far

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

• Fund a screening program for men to detect Prostate Cancer
  Opened on Wednesday 6th March 2024
  614 signatures so far

• Require Cosmetic Surgery and Non Surgical Aesthetic ads to display a risk logo
  Open from Friday 27th May 2022 to Sunday 11th December 2022
  611 signatures

• Remove quarantine requirements for passengers entering England from Canada
  Open from Tuesday 25th August 2020 to Thursday 25th February 2021
  611 signatures

• Enact ‘Plan B’ to help keep people and our NHS well this winter.
  Open from Tuesday 26th October 2021 to Tuesday 26th April 2022
  604 signatures

• Review Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
  Open from Tuesday 24th January 2023 to Monday 24th July 2023
  600 signatures

• Fund a new Hospital for the people of Hemel Hempstead and St Albans
  Open from Tuesday 17th January 2023 to Monday 17th July 2023
  600 signatures

• Promote organ donation with option to stop families overruling donor's wishes
  Open from Thursday 25th November 2021 to Wednesday 25th May 2022
  599 signatures

• Re-introduce shielding for the clinically extremely vulnerable
  Open from Monday 20th December 2021 to Monday 20th June 2022
  593 signatures

• Make sanitary products freely available to all women
  Open from Thursday 6th May 2021 to Saturday 6th November 2021
  593 signatures

• Exempt children under 11 from counting towards the 'Rule of Six' in England
  Open from Friday 18th September 2020 to Thursday 18th March 2021
  589 signatures

• Fund bowel cancer screening from the age of 40
  Open from Monday 22nd May 2023 to Wednesday 22nd November 2023
  587 signatures

• Waive the interest on student loans for NHS workers and students
  Open from Wednesday 29th July 2020 to Friday 29th January 2021
  587 signatures

• Fund annual heart screenings for under 35s
  Open from Thursday 21st July 2022 to Saturday 4th February 2023
  584 signatures

• Don’t require restaurants and cafes to display calorie counts on menus
  Open from Tuesday 18th May 2021 to Thursday 18th November 2021
  584 signatures

• Allow competitive Swimming Clubs to use indoor pools in Leicester City
  Open from Tuesday 25th August 2020 to Thursday 25th February 2021
  579 signatures

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