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Adult epilepsy nursing service
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About the service
Barnsley adult epilepsy nursing service provides specialist care for people who have a diagnosis of epilepsy, their carers and their families. The aim of the service is to help people to gain effective seizure control without medication side effects.
The service provides individualised care to empower people to manage their epilepsy through medicines management, education, lifestyle support and counselling.
The epilepsy nurses work closely with the consultant neurologist at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. They also work with general practitioners and other healthcare professionals to provide seamless care.
The service is delivered from the following venues
Clinics are held at the following venues
New Street Health Centre,
Upper New Street,
Barnsley,
S70 1LP
Thurnscoe Lift Building,
Thurnscoe Centre,
Hollybush Drive,
Barnsley,
S63 0LU
Hoyland Lift Building,
The Hoyland Centre,
High Croft,
Hoyland ,
Barnsley,
S74 9AF
Further information and helplines
There are some charities who support patients and research for Epilepsy. There is a lot of general information with regard to Epilepsy on the websites and they also have helplines for patients. The charities can an also provide information leaflets for issues relating to Epilepsy ie first aid, safety and driving etc.
Epilepsy Action – www.epilepsy.org.uk – 0808 800 5050
Epilepsy Society – www.epilepsysociety.org.uk – 01494 601400
Young Epilepsy – www.youngepilepsy.org.uk – 01342831342
SUDEP Action – www.sudep.org – 01235 722850
Why would someone choose the service?
- Advice and support can be given over the telephone and clinic appointments can be offered
- The team includes highly specialised nurses with a large amount of experience supporting people who have epilepsy
- Epilepsy nurses have excellent links with consultant neurologists, general practitioners and other healthcare professionals to enable a high standard of care
Staff you may meet
- Nurses who choose to specialise in the mental health branch of nursing work with GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists, and others, to help care for patients. Increasingly, care is given in the community, with mental health nurses visiting patients and their families at home, in residential centres, in prisons or in specialist clinics or units.
- The NHS employs a wide range of clinical staff, it wouldn’t be possible to list them all on this website! All our clinical staff are skilled, dedicated professionals who adhere to high standards of training and work-place practice.
Why a professional should choose the service
- Barnsley adult epilepsy nursing service is locally-driven and has been developed to meet the specific needs of the patients living in Barnsley
- We provide a very high standard of individualised care for people living in Barnsley who have epilepsy
Support offered
- Medicines management
- Education
- Training
- Preconception advice and monitoring throughout pregnancy
- Employment support
Outcomes
- To gain effective seizure control to reduce the risk of mortality and improve general health and wellbeing.
- To empower patients and encourage self-management
- To empower people with epilepsy to live a full and active life by addressing lifestyle issues.
- To educate patients, carers, support staff and the public to increase knowledge and reduce the impact of stigma on patients with epilepsy
- To ensure a safe diagnosis
- To reduce the risk of maternal death and babies born with birth defects
Referrals accepted from:
Consultants, GPs, Other NHS services, Other Trust services, Patients(self-referral), Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Referral criteria:
The adult specialist epilepsy nursing service provides support to patients:
- Aged 16 and over and who either resides in Barnsley or is registered with a Barnsley GP
- Who have a diagnosis of epilepsy
- Who have an existing epilepsy treatment / management plan (created within last five years by a consultant neurologist)
Exclusions:
- Patients under the age of 16
- Patients that do not reside within the Barnsley Borough or who are not registered to a Barnsley GP practice
- Patients that have not received an assessment with a Consultant Neurologist (only patients that have been issued a Consultant Neurologist management plan within the last five years can be accepted)
- Alcohol withdrawal seizures (seizures within 48 hours of stopping drinking alcohol)
- Seizures in relation to use of cocaine
Non-epileptic attacks with no history of epilepsy and no ongoing treatment changes