Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor John Battle (Labour), on Tuesday, 8 February 2005, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 115 members in total.

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EPILEPSY SUPPORT

That this House supports the Consensus Statement in response to the recently published National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Epilepsy, produced by a group of expert clinical epileptologists and representatives of the epilepsy voluntary sector, supported by over 100 epilepsy clinicians and voluntary sector organisations; and calls on the Government to put in place a national plan to increase the number of epilepsy specialist nurses from 140 to 600 across adult, paediatric and learning difficulties epilepsy disciplines within two years and to introduce a national plan of epilepsy training for general practitioners, accident and emergency doctors, and other general paediatricians and clinicians to increase their epilepsy knowledge to a level appropriate for them to fulfil their respective roles.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

685 

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Epilepsy Nurses Training

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk