Update on our Save our Sapphires campaign
During National Epilepsy Week in May, the Save our Sapphires petition was presented to MPs and peers in Westminster.
The petition was signed by over 2,000 people. It called on the governments of the UK to recognise that epilepsy specialist nurses are essential to the care of people with epilepsy. It asks for a strategic plan to increase the number of posts as well as a commitment to protect and support those nurses already in place.
Epilepsy Action formally handed over the folder of signatures to Laura Sandys, Member of Parliament for Thanet South, and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Epilepsy (APPG).
She received the petition on behalf of the APPG. She is pictured below with Epilepsy Action Deputy Chief Executive Simon Wigglesworth as he hands over the petition.
Thank you to all campaign supporters who collected signatures and signed the petition. We do not know if the Department of Health will issue any response to the petition, but we hope they will. The petition asks the Department of Health to make sure epilepsy specialist nursing is safe for the future. It also asks for epilepsy specialist nurses to be available for all those people who may benefit from seeing them.
We will continue to make sure that everyone within the health service knows exactly how valuable our nurses are.
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