Neuropsychology, NHS
Guidelines for Commissioning NHS Neuropsychological Services
These guidelines are aimed at commissioners and outline the commissioning of Neuropsychology services in general in the UK including information on what to expect in a Neuropsychology service, and the value and evidence of Clinical Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
21 November 2024
It is relevant to NHS health trusts, integrated care boards, provider collaboratives, local commissioning groups and national commissioning boards across the UK.
The guidelines can also be used to support business cases and representing services where there has been lack of investment, and where governance in neuropsychological services needs to be addressed.
It covers the following areas:
- care for long term conditions such as stroke, epilepsy, dementia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, neuro-disability and motor neurone disease;
- care for patients following traumatic or acquired brain injury;
- care for patients with minimal disorders of consciousness;
- inpatient neurosurgery, neurology and neurological rehabilitation;
- neuro-oncology;
- outpatient and community neurological rehabilitation;
- care for functional neurological disorders such as non-epileptic attack disorder
- increasing role in addictions which impact on the brain and require adaptations in current treatment;
- supporting neuropsychiatry and main stream mental health services, with a developing role in the understanding and treatment of trauma where this impacts on brain function and processing in relation to psychiatric disorders