MS nurses and other MS specialists
People with MS require support and advice from a variety of professionals - MS Nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, psychologists, speech therapists and continence advisers. Any of these professionals can become MS specialists and MS Society support is available to help people to do just that.
The MS Society is at the forefront of increasing the number of MS specialists, enabling multi-disciplinary care for all people with MS. This approach to care is backed by the NICE Guideline on MS, which states that everyone should have access to an MS specialist to help coordinate services that respond to their needs.
The MS Society established the MS Nurse Specialist Programme in 1999 to support service providers in achieving this aim and to date has supported nearly 100 posts.
The MS Society established the MS Nurse Specialist Programme in 1999 to support service providers in achieving this aim and to date has supported nearly 100 posts.
How does the programme recruit and retain specialists?
- By pump-priming grants to help the NHS and Social Services establish new MS specialist posts
- By educating, training, providing bursaries and support to MS specialists
- By providing guidance and tools to help implement the NICE MS Guideline
- By producing information, including MS Society publications, research papers, reference searches and book loans
- By offering grants to develop information resources in clinics
