Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to reduce waiting times for (a) tests and (b) treatment for functional neurological disorder.

To increase capacity and reduce treatment backlogs in England across specialisms including for functional neurological disorder (FND), the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to help drive up and protect elective activity.

This is supported further by £5.9 billion investment in capital for new beds, equipment and technology and the National Health Service rollout of surgical hubs and up to 160 Community Diagnostic Centres to deliver up to 17 million tests by March 2025.

Furthermore, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has guidance in place to support clinicians to quickly diagnose and refer those with FND which is available at the following link:

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng127