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Welsh government reaffirms commitment to improving care for patients with neurological conditions (31 July 2017)

Date: 31/07/2017
Duncan Lewis, Personal Injury Solicitors, Welsh government reaffirms commitment to improving care for patients with neurological conditions

The Welsh Government has reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring those affected by neurological conditions have timely access to care, in the Neurological Conditions Delivery Plan for 2017-2020.

The plan – first published in May 2014 – focuses on raising awareness of neurological conditions, ensuring quick diagnosis of patients, providing fast and effective care and helping people live with their condition.

The plan also aims to improve the information available on neurological conditions and treatment – as well as targeting research into causes, treatments and cures.

The Welsh Assembly estimates there are more than 100,000 people in Wales affected by a long-term neurological condition – conditions involve injuries to the brain and/or spine and range from cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis, to epilepsy.

The Assembly says progress has been made against the priorities originally set in 2013-2017, as detailed in the Annual Statement of Progress – Neurological Conditions published in March 2017.

This includes a reduction in the average time an individual spends in hospital, falling from 6.4 days in 2010-2011 to 4.2 days in 2015-2016. The length of stay following an elective admission has also reduced from 3.9 days to 2.2 days – and a similar reduction has been seen for emergency admissions, from 9.2 days to seven days.

The Welsh government says key actions of the updated plan build on the foundations of the previous plan – and continue to drive forward the vision for improving neurological services across Wales more effectively and at a greater pace, in conjunction with Health Boards’ local vision for their resident population.

Actions include raising awareness of neurological conditions by involving patients and carers in designing services – and ensuring timely diagnosis of neurological conditions, by calling on Health Boards to provide specialist advice within 24 hours (on 7-day week basis) for those admitted acutely to hospital with a suspected neurological problem.

The plan also aims to make sure those living with a neurological condition have access to care and support as close to home as possible, by using a flexible workforce with the appropriate level of evidence based knowledge, skill and expertise.

Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said:

“We want to continue to ensure people affected by a neurological condition have timely access to high-quality care, integrated with social services where appropriate – irrespective of where they live and how these services are delivered.

“I’m pleased we have been able to build on previous progress in delivering this plan and develop a new and improved vision to safeguard the future of our services.

“We have already committed to investing £1.2 million to improve access to neuro-rehabilitation services in Wales.

“The neurological conditions implementation group prioritises raising awareness of conditions – including the development of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient reported experience measures (PREMs) to consistently improve the service.

“We want health boards to use this funding to make tangible differences in the health, wellbeing and independence of people living with long-term neurological conditions.”


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