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Action for MS

Action for MS outlines the specific areas in which we are currently involved to improve the services that people with multiple sclerosis receive from health services.

Action for MS showcases how the MS Trust works to improve access to specialist services, including disease modifying drugs and symptomatic treatments and therapies. We want everyone to have real choice in health services. As a small organisation, we work with other organisations to ensure that the voices of people with MS are heard.

Latest from Alice Hamilton, Policy Officer - Action for MS

Have your say: urgent and emergency care review in England

19th June 2013 by alice.hamilton

NHS England has opened a consultation on plans to improve urgent and emergency care services provided in England. They are working towards a framework of a better care system for when you need urgent care. Since many people with MS will need urgent care at some stage with their condition, this may be very relevant. Urgent care is seen as: • Self care and self management • Telephone care eg NHS 111 • Face to face care eg emergency GP appointments, NHS walk in centres, NHS urgent care centres Emergency care is seen as: • 999 emergency services • A&E departments • Emergency admissions to hospital The review has garnered together a collection of evidence  and a set of emerging principles with possible options for implementing these principles . There is a standard consultation form for comment which contains 20 questions, most of which are multiple choice so should not be too onerous to complete. Please have your say if you have had good or bad experiences of the urgent and emergency care system and feel that it is ripe for an overhaul. The consultation closes on 11 August 2013.

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Cavendish review of Care and Healthcare assistants – what we said

22nd May 2013 by alice.hamilton

Healthcare and care assistants can be the most important people in providing basic care at home or in hospital, such as help with eating, drinking, toileting, washing and dressing. The government launched a review, headed up by Camilla Cavendish, into how healthcare and care assistants should be trained, and whether they should be formally regulated, the way that doctors and nurses are. You can read what we said here: No date has been set for the Review to publish findings.

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