Gender-based Violence: Screening Debate

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Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall

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Domestic Violence

Gender-based Violence: Screening

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Millennium Development Goals: Women and Girls
Monday 9th March 2015

(9 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Most certainly. Gender-based violence is one of the issues which sexual health clinics, and indeed all parts of the NHS, are now alert to. New guidance from NICE was issued in February last year on domestic abuse and how health and social care services and the organisations with which they work can spot and respond to abuse earlier in a more joined-up and preventive way.

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My Lords, does the noble Earl agree that not all domestic abuse results in physical symptoms? In his Answer, he mentioned mental health services. What is being done to deal with emotional abuse and to discover and refer people who suffer from it?

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