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My statement on Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill

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There is not a single NHS neurologist (who specialise in brain, spine and nervous system related conditions) across the whole of South Cumbria. Nationally almost a quarter of million people are waiting for a neurology appointment, with some having to wait years, and travelling up to 100 miles one way for each appointment. Yet this year, there were only 1698 medical training spaces (IMT) for over 6,200 applications. Internal medicine training is the gateway for medical specialisation, including neurology. If you can’t get into IMT, you cannot become a medical speciality registrar or consultant. The government is essentially turning away future neurologists with this artificial training number bottleneck. Why are they doing this when the waiting lists are so long? @wesstreeting must urgently increase training numbers, and increase the number of available consultant posts. Otherwise the backlog will just continue to get bigger and patients will continue to suffer.