Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis

(asked on 15th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the diagnosis of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 23rd July 2020

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence estimates that secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) affects around 9,000 people in England. Secondary progressive MS is a stage which comes after relapsing remitting MS for many people with the condition. After a diagnosis of relapsing remitting MS has been established, clinicians will observe the patient's symptoms over a period of time, in order to determine if they are associated with secondary progressive MS. With this type of MS, a person’s disability gets steadily worse and they are less likely to have relapses (when symptoms get worse but then get better).

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