MS Network Newsletter
MS Network - news for health and social care professionals is published three times a year, this newsletter keeps health and social care professionals in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland up to date with the very latest MS news.
Each edition will highlight examples of good practice, share learning, offer advice and support to help professionals improve services and standards of care for people with MS. Other articles will include news features, views from lead clinicians, professionals and people affected by MS, the latest on research and development projects, highlights from national campaigns, as well as new publications available and diary dates for future events.
Issue 11
Exploring paediatric MS | Editorial - Dr Neale Pimenta, GP | Expanding our campaigning work | Online for Greater Manchester | Physios - we need YOU | North Wales neurology events | Service development in Surrey | Scotland specialist success | Network in Northern Ireland | QNI winner announced | Commissioning Support pilot project underway | Profile - Michelle Hunt, continence nurse | Research - MS Society appoints new medical advisers | Research - are you looking for funding? | Get loud about social services - give us your views on eligibility, charging and individual budgets
Exploring paediatric MS | Editorial - Dr Neale Pimenta, GP | Expanding our campaigning work | Online for Greater Manchester | Physios - we need YOU | North Wales neurology events | Service development in Surrey | Scotland specialist success | Network in Northern Ireland | QNI winner announced | Commissioning Support pilot project underway | Profile - Michelle Hunt, continence nurse | Research - MS Society appoints new medical advisers | Research - are you looking for funding? | Get loud about social services - give us your views on eligibility, charging and individual budgets
Issue 10
Put the pieces together | Neuroprotection: new thinking in the treatment of MS | National MS charities to work more closely together | MS Society flood grants| Annie and Dan talk about MS | Working for children with MS | MS nurses scoop award | Professional Network Conference explores self care | Network group for mental health | Respite recognition | Network profile | Research drive for symptom relief
Put the pieces together | Neuroprotection: new thinking in the treatment of MS | National MS charities to work more closely together | MS Society flood grants| Annie and Dan talk about MS | Working for children with MS | MS nurses scoop award | Professional Network Conference explores self care | Network group for mental health | Respite recognition | Network profile | Research drive for symptom relief
Issue 9
NICE news for Tysabri | Tysabri in Europe | Full house for Frontiers | Grants for home alarms | Measuring Success goes online | Partnership goes from strength to strength | India visit update | ABN revises DMD guidelines | Social care campaign | E-learning package for primary care | Nurse commitment | Network profile | Two-year results of Campath -1H
NICE news for Tysabri | Tysabri in Europe | Full house for Frontiers | Grants for home alarms | Measuring Success goes online | Partnership goes from strength to strength | India visit update | ABN revises DMD guidelines | Social care campaign | E-learning package for primary care | Nurse commitment | Network profile | Two-year results of Campath -1H
Issue 8
Information pays dividends: Brussels boost for European networks | The capacity to act | Funding blow for Scottish prescribing | Skills for self care | Aware of the options: Social care report highlights information | In the interests of the community | MS nurse situation | Info pilots launch | Given the choice: The benefits of long-term residential care | Minority support | Network profile | A powerful partnership in the drive for MS research
Information pays dividends: Brussels boost for European networks | The capacity to act | Funding blow for Scottish prescribing | Skills for self care | Aware of the options: Social care report highlights information | In the interests of the community | MS nurse situation | Info pilots launch | Given the choice: The benefits of long-term residential care | Minority support | Network profile | A powerful partnership in the drive for MS research
Issue 7
Networking together | What you need, what you get: how to really engage service users | MS nurses under pressure | Social care training in MS | The wider world of MS care: Network members to visit India | Linking up | Let's get physical | Branch scheme boosts local support | Network profile | NICE fast-track for Tysabri
Networking together | What you need, what you get: how to really engage service users | MS nurses under pressure | Social care training in MS | The wider world of MS care: Network members to visit India | Linking up | Let's get physical | Branch scheme boosts local support | Network profile | NICE fast-track for Tysabri
Issue 6
New directions for health and social care | Waste not, want not | Care funding scandal | 100,000 experts on their way | Give us the Powys to improve | What women want to know: sex, hormones, babies and MS | GPs give you more | Money, money, money | Taking control of social care | The international perspective | OT what can the matter be? | Translating research: Edinburgh gets groundbreaking new centre
New directions for health and social care | Waste not, want not | Care funding scandal | 100,000 experts on their way | Give us the Powys to improve | What women want to know: sex, hormones, babies and MS | GPs give you more | Money, money, money | Taking control of social care | The international perspective | OT what can the matter be? | Translating research: Edinburgh gets groundbreaking new centre
Issue 5
Short term goals threaten long term care | Stem cells and MS: holy grail or scientists’ hobby? | Palliative care works | Growing support for lycra | Saving the specialist nurse| Let’s talk about sex: help find solutions to intimate problems | Disability and the law | The pros, the cons and the people with MS
Short term goals threaten long term care | Stem cells and MS: holy grail or scientists’ hobby? | Palliative care works | Growing support for lycra | Saving the specialist nurse| Let’s talk about sex: help find solutions to intimate problems | Disability and the law | The pros, the cons and the people with MS
Issue 4
Confidence in care - Framework launched to take forward knowledge and skills in healthcare | It’s good to talk: recognising the value of specialist counselling | NSF – hot topic for MS professionals | Wales carers befriending network | Supporting young carers | Putting the patient first | The value of specialist counseling | Proposed incapacity benefit changes | Fatigue research new directions
Confidence in care - Framework launched to take forward knowledge and skills in healthcare | It’s good to talk: recognising the value of specialist counselling | NSF – hot topic for MS professionals | Wales carers befriending network | Supporting young carers | Putting the patient first | The value of specialist counseling | Proposed incapacity benefit changes | Fatigue research new directions
Issue 3
National Service Framework | Tougher DDA | One stop clinic in West London | Working with MS | Model GP clinic for Kent | Tysabri | Goat Serum | Scotland model care pathway | Long-term residence for younger people
National Service Framework | Tougher DDA | One stop clinic in West London | Working with MS | Model GP clinic for Kent | Tysabri | Goat Serum | Scotland model care pathway | Long-term residence for younger people
Issue 2
Government disability strategy | Payment by results | Scotland standards being developed | Partners in change project | Supporting those severely affected | Setback for new MS drug
Government disability strategy | Payment by results | Scotland standards being developed | Partners in change project | Supporting those severely affected | Setback for new MS drug
Issue 1
Update on Risk Sharing Scheme | Opinion by Aladair Coles, Neurologist | Campaign news | Physiotherapy projects for MS - an evaluation | Scotland's Managed Care Networks | Complementary and alternative medicine in MS | UK's first MS social worker | New training video for care staff
Update on Risk Sharing Scheme | Opinion by Aladair Coles, Neurologist | Campaign news | Physiotherapy projects for MS - an evaluation | Scotland's Managed Care Networks | Complementary and alternative medicine in MS | UK's first MS social worker | New training video for care staff











