Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to increase the number of specialist practitioners (a) researching and (b) treating Tourette Syndrome.

Patients with Tourette’s syndrome can require support from a range of professionals, including clinical psychologists and neurologists. Health Education England has supported an 85 percent expansion in the clinical psychology training intake over the past three years. This expansion model is expected to achieve a growth of 2,520 additional psychologists in the National Health Service workforce by 2025. The number of postgraduate neurology training posts in England will also increase by 5 from August 2023.

There are no specific plans to increase the number of specialist practitioners researching Tourette’s syndrome.