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Epilepsy Services

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I used to work with someone with epilepsy and at the outset, she said, ““If I fall over, you do not put a spoon in my mouth. This is what you do.”” She debunked the myths straight away, and we were not frightened of the condition and learned to cope with it. Sadly, she was the victim of an unexplained death as a result of epilepsy. Such deaths impact on families in all sorts of ways, too. The family found it difficult to cope with the unexplained death and had relatively little support and help afterwards. That was a few years ago, and I believe that more support is available now.