Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the clinical guidance on the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of functional neurological disorders.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently developing a guideline on rehabilitation for chronic neurological disorders and acquired brain injury. Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) will be covered in this guideline and NICE expects to publish the final guideline in September 2024. NICE also published the ‘Suspected neurological conditions: recognition and referral’ guideline in 2019, to assist with diagnosis of FND.
Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) The word “safe” means without risk of death or injury. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) If it goes to the heart, you have a heart attack; if it goes to the brain or the lungs, you have a stroke - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) seizures, tremors, inability to work or talk, irregular heart palpitations, low oxygen levels, vertigo, brain - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) It was withdrawn because of the rarest of blood clots on the brain. - Speech Link
Found: Injury (TBI) platform.
Asked by: Jessica Morden (Labour - Newport East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to establish a taskforce to consider issues faced by people with neurological conditions; and if he will meet with representatives from the Neurological Alliance to discuss the potential merits of creating this taskforce.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department received the petition calling for the establishment of a neurological taskforce from the Neurological Alliance and other stakeholders in June 2023. We are considering that petition. Policy colleagues regularly meet with the Neurological Alliance and have worked closely together to develop an Acquired Brain Injury Strategy, due to be published later this year.
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: I had entered hospital healthy, but while there, and due to errors and failings in my care, acquired
Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) If they do not act, should we not legislate for a duty of brain injury care? - Speech Link
2: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) Brain injury blights thousands of lives each year. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) Friend is vice chair of the all-party parliamentary group on acquired brain injury and takes a keen interest - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) with football, and the association with head injuries and other diseases and concerns that have been acquired - Speech Link
2: Marra, Michael (Lab - North East Scotland) Those impacts have left so many players suffering from degenerative brain disease incurred in the line - Speech Link
3: Smyth, Colin (Lab - South Scotland) I pay tribute to his injury time campaign, on which he has worked with the PFA Scotland and the GMB. - Speech Link
4: Simpson, Graham (Con - Central Scotland) Michael Marra and Richard Leonard mentioned the serious issue of brain disease linked to heading the - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Preterm BirthFound: that neuronal group selection theory6 (NGST) is such a framework which helps us understand how the brain
Mar. 14 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 4 December 2023Found: 0 Swelling of eyelid 9 0 Lid, lash and lacrimal structural disorders Dacryostenosis acquired
Mar. 14 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 4 December 2023Found: 0 Swelling of eyelid 9 0 Lid, lash and lacrimal structural disorders Dacryostenosis acquired