This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Make Rehabilitation services for Addiction an NHS provided service
Make funding available for rehabilitation services which are currently privatised
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Please make rehabilitation services, which are currently privatised available to patients who desperately need this medical support but unable to afford the costs
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
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.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.