July 2015 – Neurodigest

Neurodigest Issue 2

A very big welcome to our second edition of Neurodigest: a community centric neurology focused journal. Download a full PDF of this issue here. Our mission is to seek out excellent care wherever we find it and disseminate this to our expanding ...(read more)

Neuroscience Strategic Clinical Networks – Issue 2 update

Introduction The commissioning and provision of neurological services is complex, with responsibilities split across clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), specialist commissioners, community services, acute hospitals, primary care, neuroscience ...(read more)

Focusing on the ‘invisible patients’

Alex is Senior Policy and Campaigns Adviser with the Neurological Alliance and is a patient voice representative on the Neurosciences Clinical Reference Group. He previously worked for ACEVO, the charity leaders’ network, where he led their work ...(read more)

Rapid and reliable management of early-morning OFF periods in patients with Parkinson’s disease

K. Ray Chaudhuri Professor of Movement Disorders, Director of the National Parkinson Foundation Centre of Excellence, Department of Neurology, King’s College and King’s College Hospital, and Kings Health Partners, London, UK E: ...(read more)

Multidisciplinary Neuro-rehabilitation and precisely targeted botulinum toxin restores hand function following a severe brain injury

Dr Julian Harriss is Medical Director of Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People, Clinical Lead in Rehabilitation Medicine at the Lane Fox Clinic, St Thomas Hospital London, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at KCL. He has over twenty years ...(read more)

Does DNA methylation hold the key to Parkinson’s Disease?

Dr Nigel Williams is a Reader in molecular genetics at the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University. His research has identified genetic loci that increase risk to schizophrenia, ADHD and frontotemporal dementia. ...(read more)

Clarifying patients’ needs and levels of services required

Professor Pam Enderby MBE PhD is Professor of Community Rehabilitation at The University of Sheffield. She established the first AAC centre in the UK in 1980, and was awarded a Fellowship of the College of Speech Therapists in 1983. In 1993 ...(read more)

The network approach: a new model for care provision for people with motor neurone Disease (pwMND)

Ken Dawson is a Consultant Neurologist, working mainly as a General Neurologist in the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board area and also at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, where he also runs specialist clinics for dystonia. He is ...(read more)

Providing Expert Commissioning support in neurology – what a difference this can make

Sue Thomas is Chief Executive of NHiS Commissioning Excellence. Her background is in nursing, with extensive experience in primary care and commissioning. Sue is a Florence Nightingale Scholar, a Winston Churchill Fellow and has published over 150 ...(read more)

Primary Care management of headache: A pilot pathway and guidelines including access to MRI

Summary A pilot pathway and guidelines to assist primary care practitioners managing patients with headache was introduced by the West Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (WNCCG) after GPs had expressed a wish to have greater access to ...(read more)