Make Rehabilitation services for Addiction an NHS provided service

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Make funding available for rehabilitation services which are currently privatised

Please make rehabilitation services, which are currently privatised available to patients who desperately need this medical support but unable to afford the costs

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

The NHS already provide help for people with drug addiction, which you can find out about here: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/drug-addiction-getting-help/

It is up to individual NHS trusts, not the Government or House of Commons, to decide how to help patients with drug addictions, which includes whether to offer treatment or refer them to another service.

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to provide additional funding to the NHS in respect of rehabilitation for drug addiction, if you think the NHS does not currently have the funding for this.

We could also accept a petition calling on the Government to fund a national drug rehabilitation programme, if you wanted the Government to provide this directly, rather than provide funding to the NHS for this purpose.

Timeline

22 Oct 2020	Petition opened for signatures
29 Oct 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 29 Oct 2020

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