Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to improve the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of functional neurological disorders.

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.