General Practitioners: Mental Health Services
(asked on 13th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of GP surgeries that offer appointments with a mental health nurse.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st November 2023
The information requested on the number of GP surgeries offering appointments with a mental health nurse is not held.
There are many roles within primary care multi-disciplinary teams that offer mental health support including community mental health nurses, mental health and wellbeing practitioners, applied psychologists and social prescribing link workers.