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NHS: Mental Health |
| Question ID: |
1804817 |
| UIN: |
HL7690 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4551 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Redfern
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Baroness Redfern
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, following the decision to close the NHS volunteer and care service, whether they will extend the funding of NHS Practitioner Health beyond March 2026. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-11 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
The National NHS and Care Volunteer Responders programme was first established as part of the COVID-19 response and then adapted to respond to other organisational pressures. However, a model that worked well in a national crisis is no longer the most cos... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |