Is your nursery, school, college or university award-winning? We have launched our new award for identifying and promoting good practice in education for people with epilepsy. The ‘Epilepsy Action Edwards’ will recognise education establishments who provide a good supportive learning environment to pupils or students with epilepsy.
Imagine being able to tell your friends about your epilepsy and finding that it’s no big deal. Imagine getting the epilepsy information you need when you want it, leaving you free to just get on with it.
The theme of National Epilepsy Week this year is young people with epilepsy. Having epilepsy, seizures and taking anti-epileptic drugs may have a huge impact on the lives of teenagers with epilepsy. It may affect how you cope in lessons, what sports you play and what time you go to bed.
Epilepsy Action is calling for a ‘special review’ of long-term neurological conditions by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Each year the CQC conducts a certain number of special reviews. A special review would look at the health and social services for people in England with long-term neurological conditions, such as epilepsy. The review would judge and score them in each part of the country. These results would be available for the public to see.
The Long Term Conditions Alliance in the Welsh Assembly Government is surveying people with long term medical conditions. They want to find out what information people use about their condition, how they use it and what information is missing.
The UK Yellow Card scheme is a scheme run by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). This agency uses the scheme to collect reports from people taking drugs like anti-epileptic drugs to build information about side-effects.
In 2005, the Department of Health launched the National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions. This publication set out a programme for ten years to provide the best care for people with long-term conditions.
We understand there will be a review of how successful this has been, halfway through its ten year period. An on-line survey has been made to gather as many opinions as possible.
Epilepsy Action relies on the generosity of the public and businesses for around 90 per cent of its income. Without this support many of our essential services would not be possible.
The Royal Mail postal strike will inevitably affect donations coming into Epilepsy Action by post. We’d like to reassure donors that, although mail is taking longer than usual to reach us, it will arrive. There is no need to worry about sending donations to us via Royal Mail.
National Voices has set up an online poll to find out what people think about the UK government's new proposals to reform social care.
National Voices is an umbrella organisation which brings together national voluntary organisations representing users of health and social care.
They would like to hear from anyone involved or interested in the social care system,so they can best respons to the government's consultation.
If you're in the UK, and you have had a first, single, unprovoked, epileptic seizure, you may now be able to get your licence back:
You will need to stop driving and inform DVLA (for England, Scotland or Wales) or DVA (for Northern Ireland).
To get your licence back, you will need to fulfil the following criteria.
