Children and young people with epilepsy need better access to mental health support services, with only 15% of Health Boards and Trusts currently able to integrate mental health provision within their epilepsy clinics, according to the latest Epilepsy12 report from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) .
Today we’re publishing the results of our young people’s survey, all about their experience of epilepsy care and how this has changed as they’ve grown older.
As nine-year-old Thomas Braun delivers a letter to the Prime Minister about his families’ challenges in accessing cannabis-based seizure treatments for his brother, Chief Executive of Young Epilepsy, Mark Devlin, comments:
A review of anti-seizure medication (ASM) use in pregnancy has been published, showing that some ASMs are safer to use than others.
Young Epilepsy is the operating name of The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy Charitable Trust. | |
