Commissioning Epilepsy Services - Resource Pack for Commissioners

This resource pack has been put together as a direct result of the Best Value, Better Care – Commissioning Epilepsy Services conference held in London on 23rd February 2010. It brings together relevant documents and information from a variety of sources to give you support in developing epilepsy services in your area.

A conference report with edited transcripts is also available. The transcripts, which should be read in conjunction with the information in this document, provide a wealth of detail and thought from some of the most prominent people in the field. The documents and reports mentioned at the conference are listed here.

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Context

• 1. Why commissioning high quality epilepsy services is important
• 2. National priorities and policy context
• 3. Key elements of a high quality service
• 4. Benefits for people of all ages with epilepsy, the health service and the whole system
• 5. Twenty Questions: A quick check list for commissioners

Supporting documents

• 1. NICE Clinical Guidelines
• 2. How to use NICE guidance to commission high-quality services
• 3. Wasted money, wasted lives
• 4. Time for change
• 5. NHS Comparators
• 6. NHS Evidence
• 7. Guidance and competences for the provision of services using practitioners with special interests (PwSIs) Epilepsy
• 8. World Class Services for people with long term conditions – information tool for commissioners
• 9. Improving the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities
• 10. Health Needs Assessment for Long Term Neurological Conditions in North East England
• 11. Long Term Neurological Conditions: A good practice guide to the development of the multidisciplinary team and the value of the specialist nurse
• 12. Identifying and monitoring the cost-effectiveness of the Epilepsy Specialist Nurse
• 13. Capturing the essence and demonstrating the value of the clinical nurse specialist
• 14. Death by indifference
• 15. Healthcare for All
• 16. The Better Futures Campaign
• 17. Avoidable Epilepsy-Related DeathsA briefing for commissioners of epilepsy services

Examples
The following examples have been kindly shared by their authors.

• 1. Shared care protocol for epilepsy in adults
  Sheffield Area Prescribing Committee, April 2008
• 2. Buccal midazolam Shared Care Guideline
  Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
• 3. Focus on your health for people with epilepsy
  Medicines partnership and Department of Health
• 4. A review of Epilepsy Specialist Nurse’s clinical activity and impact on paediatric admissions
  Dept of Paediatrics, Sherwood Forest Hospital, Sutton in Ashfield
• 5. Epilepsy Strategy Developing a Service Model and Recommendations for Modernising Epilepsy Services in East Kent
  Kent County Council and East Kent NHS
• 6. Dorset Epilepsy Service
• 7. Proposal for a Code of Practice for Children with Epilepsy
• 8. North Central London Epilepsy Network Guidelines