Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women's Health and Mental Health
Organisations:
Department of Health and Social Care
Current role holder:
Baroness Merron
Responsibilities
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health is responsible for:
- patient voice and patient experience:
- Patient Safety Commissioner
- complaints
- Healthwatch
- patient safety:
- clinical negligence
- inquiries
- quality regulation
- death certification
- indemnity
- mental health:
- mental health reform
- children and young people and early intervention
- suicide and crisis prevention
- offender health
- mental health inquiries
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blood, transplant and organs
- research:
- clinical trials
- COVID-19 vaccine licensing
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- life sciences and innovation:
- medtech and regulation
- genomics
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women’s health
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maternity services
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reproductive health
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abortion
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gender identity services
-
statutory instruments, including retained EU laws
-
departmental management
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sponsorship of:
- Health Research Authority
- Care Quality Commission
- Health Services Safety Investigations Body
- NHS Resolution
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
- Human Tissue Authority
- NHS Blood and Transplant
Current role holder
Baroness Merron
Baroness Merron was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care on 9 July 2024.