Focus on Neurology:

• 1: 10 admissions – Neurological
• Third most frequent specialty after cardiology and respiratory
• Current process: triage to general physician
• Inappropriate delays in care due to limited access to local neurology services
• Delay in referral and misdiagnosis
• Increased LOS and inappropriate use of investigations
• Many hospitals have no policy for acute seizure care, no policy for status epileptics
• 10% mortality

So - what are we doing in the Neurology Network?

• Focus on headache services
• Developing better services for patients with neuromuscular disease
• Improving End of Life and Palliative Care
• Asking patients what good looks like for them via a series of focus groups
• Focus on Epilepsy services
• Focus on improving neuro-rehabilitation services
• Asking CCG commissioners and acute hospital consultants what are their key issues and priorities
• Developing a more user friendly data intelligence set so that CCGs and hospitals and patients can see how things are going