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Mental Health Services: Males

Volume 494: debated on Monday 15 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to prepare and publish a strategy for male mental health. (279971)

The Government are fully committed to improving men's mental health services through the Gender Equality and Women's Mental Health Programme, within the National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU).

NMHDU has commissioned a scoping exercise to identify the specific mental health needs of men. From this a new programme will emerge, addressing men's mental health issues and the direction for further work.