Mental Health Services: Gender Recognition

(asked on 23rd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve mental health provision for transgender people.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 29th January 2018

To improve quality of care, the Department and NHS England are transforming mental health service provision to provide equitable access to high quality care for all people, including transgender people. Local areas are required to consider their local population’s needs, including access to services based on clinical need, when they commission and provide services and support.

The Government is investing an additional £1 billion by 2020 to deliver a major expansion of mental health services, including liaison psychiatry in every accident and emergency department, putting crisis resolution and home treatment teams on 24/7 footing and expanding perinatal mental health services.

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