A Chelsea woman, who has epilepsy, has climbed 334 spiral steps up the Clock Tower of Big Ben today. Katharine Ford has climbed the tower on behalf of charity Epilepsy Action in celebration of Purple Day (26 March), a worldwide epilepsy awareness day.
Epilepsy Action’s East London Branch is inviting people with epilepsy, their family and carers to come and meet the local epilepsy nurse.
The meeting will take place on 31 March from 7.00pm to 9.00pm at St John’s Church Centre, Stratford Broadway, Stratford.
Adults attending the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead are to benefit from improved epilepsy services with the appointment of the hospital’s first epilepsy Sapphire Nurse.
Epilepsy Action, in conjunction with the Royal Free Hospital Hampstead NHS Trust, has appointed Adina Nash as a nurse who specialises in caring for people with epilepsy. Adina will work as a clinical nurse specialist for epilepsy alongside consultant neurologists at the hospital to provide this vital service.