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<p>The annual workforce census held by the Health and Social Care Information Centre does not capture the level of detail required. Information on the number of specialist nurses for a neurological condition active in each primary care trust and clinical commissioning group in each of the last five years is not available.</p><p>In a recent House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report, the prevalence of neurological conditions; excluding migraine, was estimated at 2 million people in the United Kingdom, including Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis. ("Services for people with neurological disorders", published 16 March 2012).</p><p>It is problematic to reach a more precise estimate, as the Health and Social Care Information Centre, only measures Hospital Episode Statistics. This data shows hospital episodes with neurological conditions as the diagnosis, not wider prevalence, as there will be people not admitted to hospital with these conditions.</p><p>The published data does show hospital admissions within a financial year for all primary diagnoses of ICD10 codes G00-G99 (neurological conditions). The data are available in full at:</p><p>www.hscic.gov.uk/searchcatalogue?productid=9161&q=title%3a%22Hospital +Episode+Statistics%2c+Admitted+patient+care+-+England%22&sort=Relevance8tsize=108tpage=l#top</p><p>The PAC report "Services for people with neurological disorders", placed health spending on neurological conditions at £2.9 billion in 2009-10. Spending on social services for people with neurological conditions was an estimated £2.4 billion in 2009-10, and has remained flat since 2005-06.</p><p>There are no data available as to the overall societal cost of neurological conditions.</p> |