Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve the quality of training on Tourette’s syndrome and other neurological disorders for service providers in England.

Individual National Health Service employers are responsible for ensuring that staff are trained, competent and have the necessary skills to safely and effectively treat patients in their care, including those with Tourette’s syndrome and other neurological disorders. Health Education England’s e-learning for healthcare also offers sessions including content on Tourette’s syndrome.

Patients with Tourette’s syndrome are usually referred to specialist neurology services. A new curriculum for dual training in neurology and internal medicine produced by the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board is being implemented in August 2022 to manage the growing number of people with neurological diseases who can be treated and require long-term management and those who present acutely to neurology, stroke and general medical services.