Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the NHS workforce plan meets the needs of people with (a) Parkinson's disease and (b) other long-term neurological conditions.

To support the workforce as a whole we have commissioned NHS England to develop a Long Term Workforce Plan, which will include independently verified forecasts for the number of healthcare professionals required in future years. The Plan is for the whole of the National Health Service workforce, including those working with patients with Parkinson’s disease and other long-term neurological conditions.