May 2017 – Neurodigest

Excessive serous saliva – a significant quality of life issue

Excessive serous saliva, also referred to as sialorrhoea is common in people with neurological conditions and is often problematic and embarrassing. Alexander McGeachan and Christopher McDermott have written a very useful review, published in the ...(read more)

Community Neurological Rehabilitation in the East Midlands

The need for a properly integrated approach to commissioning and providing community services for long term neurological conditions is well recognised. With that in mind, the East Midlands Mental Health Clinical Network launched the ...(read more)

Bladder and Bowel Management in People with Neurological Conditions.

The MS Trust recently highlighted that around 75 per cent of people with MS experience bladder problems, which can have a big impact on your everyday life. But on the MS Trust website, there are a number of simple management strategies that you may ...(read more)

NHS England Community Neurology Project

Stephen Williams Project Manager, Community Neurology Project, NHS England E: WilliamsNM@cardiff.ac.uk Neurological conditions are many and varied. The term covers a huge variety of significant health problems, from isolated injuries to recurrent or ...(read more)

Toolkit helping commissioners provide better health services for people with epilepsy

An online epilepsy toolkit, specifically for commissioners, is helping to provide all the information required to ensure high quality services for the 500,000 people living with epilepsy in England. Olivia Rzadkiewicz, Online Reporter, Epilepsy ...(read more)

RCGP Clinical Priority for Epilepsy: The top five tips for improving epilepsy health care provision

Dr Greg Rogers is a GP in Lymington, Hampshire, he has a special interest in epilepsy and was the recently appointed RCGP clinical Champion for Epilepsy. Greg was a member of the guideline development groups for the NICE Epilepsy Update, 2012 and ...(read more)

Neurodigest Issue 3

Welcome to our third edition of Neurodigest, a journal that likes to hoover up the best of neurological care in the community from around the UK and present it to you in an easy to digest form. Download a full PDF of this issue here. We start with a ...(read more)

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General Clinical News Prenatal APAP associated with language delay in children at 30 months Language delay may be linked to prenatal acetaminophen (paracetamol) use The effect of prenatal exposure to acetaminophen (APAP)/paracetamol on child ...(read more)

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General News Online Neurology Education for Primary Care E-Brain, developed with the Joint Neurosciences Council (a UK registered charity, of which P-CNS are members) continues to develop and offer excellent education modules to complete online and ...(read more)