Question follow-through · 8735
Tourette's Syndrome: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to improve training for service providers on (a) Tourette's syndrome and (b) other tic disorders.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to improve training for service providers on (a) Tourette's syndrome and (b) other tic disorders.
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
NHS England’s e-Learning for Healthcare has produced modular online learning resources in relation to Tourette’s syndrome and other tic disorders, within its neurodevelopmental disorder and healthy schools programme domains, which are freely accessible to...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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