Speeches

Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health services he has visited since March 2015; and what the date was of each such visit.

Alistair Burt

Departmental Ministers have undertaken the following visits to mental health services (including charity visits and community centres) in an official capacity since March 2015 to date:

Former Minister of State (Norman Lamb)

5 March 2015- Turning Point’s Crisis Point Centre

5 March 2015- RADAR (Rapid Alcohol Detox Acute Referrals)

Minister of State (Alistair Burt)

21 May 2015- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust- Child and Adolescent Mental Heal Services

29 June 2015- Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health Unite/ West London Clinical Commissioning Group

2 July 2015- British Transport Policy, suicide prevention and mental health team (street triage)

3 August 2015- Margaret Oats, Mother and baby unit, City and Hackney Centre for mental health

24 August 2015- Bradford Divisional HQ, Nelson Street Police Station

10 September 2015 – Samaritans Visit on World Suicide Day

8 October 2015 – Oxfordshire Mind for World Mental Health day