Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care
Fund Vitamin D tests and free/subsidised supplements for BAME communities
Closed
442 signatures
What the petition asks
Make the testing of Vitamin D levels readily and freely available from GP Surgeries, Pharmacies as well as through home testing kits. Vitamin D therapies should be freely provided to bring people to optimum levels. Supplements should then be available for free/subsidized to maintain optimum levels.
Modern lifestyles and dark skin impedes the absorption of Vitamin D from sunlight which can lead to low levels.
Vitamin D controls the on/off switch for more than a thousand genes and is also a building block for hormones. It influences our immune system, and is thought to help inflammatory pathways run properly.
Deficiency has been linked to obesity, high blood pressure, psoriasis, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes.
Action could save lives and help protect the NHS.
Vitamin D controls the on/off switch for more than a thousand genes and is also a building block for hormones. It influences our immune system, and is thought to help inflammatory pathways run properly.
Deficiency has been linked to obesity, high blood pressure, psoriasis, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes.
Action could save lives and help protect the NHS.
Timeline
| 22 Jun 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 22 Dec 2020 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
442
Status
Closed
Department
Department of Health and Social Care
Opened
22 Jun 2020
Closed
22 Dec 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.