Multiple Sclerosis: Nurses
(asked on 26th January 2023) - 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 increase the number of MS nurses in England.
This question was answered on 13th February 2023
Individual National Health Service employers are responsible for planning local staffing levels in line with service priorities, including the number of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) nurses.
Whilst there are no specific targets for increasing numbers of MS nurses at a national level, the Government is on track to recruit 50,000 more nurses across hospital and general practice settings overall by 2024.