Gambling: Rehabilitation

(asked on 12th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to expand NHS services based outside London to treat gambling addiction.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 20th June 2018

There are no plans to expand National Health Service-funded services to treat gambling addiction. There are a range of services available to problem gamblers, details of which can be found on the NHS Choices website at the following:

www.nhs.uk/Livewell/addiction/Pages/gamblingaddiction.aspx

Data on the number of young people in Lancashire receiving treatment for gambling addiction are not held centrally.

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