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Brain: Injuries

Commons · Question 2788 · Tabled 30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 11 Sep 2024

Question

Asked by Mark Pritchard

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help (a) raise awareness of the symptoms of brain aneurysms and (b) improve training for GPs to recognise those symptoms.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 11 Sep 2024

Through neurosurgery networks, NHS England will engage with referring clinicians to ensure that patients receive appropriate assessments, diagnostics, and referral pathways to a neuroscience centre when required.Moreover, the standard of medical training ...