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Good Practice Guide and examples
- Quality requirement 1: A person-centred service
- Quality requirement 2: Early recognition, prompt diagnosis and treatment
- Quality requirement 3: Emergency and acute management
- Quality requirement 4: Early and specialist rehabilitation
- Quality requirement 5: Community rehabilitation and support
- Quality requirement 6: Vocational rehabilitation
- Quality requirement 7: Providing equipment & accommodation
- Quality requirement 8: Personal care and support
- Quality requirement 9: Palliative care
- Quality requirement 10: Supporting families and carers
- Quality requirement 11: Caring for people with neurological conditions during admission
- Chapter 3 of the NSF: Neuroscience networks
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Chapter 3 of the NSF: Neuroscience networks
These examples demonstrate how neuroscience networks described in chapter 3 of the NSF can improve services for people with long-term conditions. *An asterisk in an example indicates that its approach could be adapted for other long-term conditions.
Action on Neurology programme
See pages 37-48 and 51 for information on making changes to local services:
Buckinghamshire Brain Injury Service Network
The Brain Injury Service Network is a county-wide inter-agency network. It serves four primary care trusts, two local councils and three Headway groups in Buckinghamshire and Milton (estimated population 750,000). The network includes both local and specialist county-wide brain injury services.
*Clinical Managed Network for Parkinson's Disease, Cornwall
The network was first developed as an initiative led by individuals with Parkinson's disease to build capacity for local provision of specialist Parkinson's disease services. A group of allied health professionals with specialist interests are key stakeholders in the network.
London Regional Forum on Young Onset Dementia
This is a collaborative initiative with the Alzheimer's Society (London Region).
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Regional Partnership Forum, Newcastle
The Community Multiple Sclerosis Team (CMST) at the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, Newcastle is a member of the Regional Partnership Forum, an MS Society initiative which brings together all regional charities and health and social care providers to improve services for people with MS.
The Society for Cognitive Rehabilitation (SCR)
The SCR is a network for cognitive rehabilitation therapists and others with an interest in the provision of cognitive rehabilitation to people with acquired brain injury. It provides the opportunity for international networking through annual conferences, an annual News Bulletin and the publication of a directory of members. It also encourages members to carry out research and publish their findings. It has developed a process for certification of cognitive rehabilitation providers (CPCRT).
South East London and Kent Parkinson's Disease Nurse Specialist Team
The nurse specialist team is a regional peer support group of seven Parkinson's disease nurses.
West Midlands Regional Intrathecal Baclofen Services Forum
The multidisciplinary forum for clinicians working in the field of spasticity management began to meet in 2001. The forum brings together clinicians working in primary care, neurology, rehabilitation, orthopaedic and paediatric services.
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