Ms Magdalen Rogers:

There is a well-functioning team in the mid-west. It is a multidisciplinary team that has psychology, speech and language therapy and occupation therapy. It provides a six- to eight-week intensive period of community neuro-rehabilitation for people with a range of neurological conditions, both sudden onset conditions like acquired brain injury and progressive neurological conditions like multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and so on. The team provides an extremely effective service to maintain people's health in the community. These are people who have been discharged from hospital and also people who are living in the community.

In terms of indicators as to how well that is working, we asked in our neurology survey in 2020 about access to community neuro-rehabilitation. Neurology would be one of the main referrers to community neuro-rehabilitation services but the neurologists highlighted to us that access to community services had actually worsened since 2015. It was more difficult to get access to community neuro-rehabilitation.