Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will amend the NHS long-term workforce plan to help tackle regional variations in access to Parkinson’s specialist care.

The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. It covers the majority of NHS workforce groups, including those working on Parkinson’s disease. The LTWP commits to working closely with systems to consider the best approaches to reviewing the geographical distribution of training posts for wider professional groups.