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Functional Neurological Disorder: Counselling and Physiotherapy

Question for Department of Health

UIN 112350, tabled on 10 November 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that people with functional neurological disorder have adequate access to physiotherapy and counselling in the NHS.

Answered on

15 November 2017

Decisions about treatment for patients with functional neurological disorder should be made on a case by case basis by clinicians in discussions with their patients; this would include referrals to physiotherapy or counselling services if appropriate.

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