Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the level of NHS card and support available to people who have been diagnosed with encephalitis.

The Department has not made a recent assessment of the diagnosis of encephalitis or the level of National Health Service support available to people who have been diagnosed with encephalitis.

The new Emergency Care Data Set will be introduced from October 2017, and will improve the recording of the diagnosis of encephalitis in English accident and emergency departments, and allow a greater understanding of the current scope and scale of the problem.