PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Prostitution (28 October 2014)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues on minimum standards of care in situations where patients who have been engaged in prostitution have been referred by the NHS for counselling or therapeutic services.

Asked by:
Seema Malhotra (Labour)

Answer

The Department has not issued specific guidance where patients who have been engaged in prostitution have been referred by the National Health Service for counselling or therapeutic services.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has issued guidelines for access to therapeutic services.


Answered by:
Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat)
3 November 2014

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