Neurology: Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of neurology departments in NHS hospitals.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning most services for people with long term conditions, including neurological conditions. ICBs are allocated funding by NHS England to meet local need and priorities and to improve outcomes. NHS England continues to set national standards, service specifications and clinical access policies which ICBs are expected to apply.
The neurology workstream with NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme is supporting neurology departments across England to tackle variations in the way services are delivered across the National Health Service, through data-driven insights and sharing best practice between trusts and systems. This includes direct, focused support for challenged services.
GIRFT and the national specialised commissioning transformation programme are working closely to develop guidance to support trusts and systems to improve care pathways and to meet the national specialised neurology service specification, which sets out the core requirements of specialised neurology providers.
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