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Way Ahead

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This newsletter is produced quarterly for nurses and health professionals who work with people with MS. Apart from general news and updates, each edition has two or three articles which, it is hoped, explore an area of interest in clinical management.

Way Ahead Volume 9 Part 1 (April 2005)

Change the policy: change the practice!
PEG feeding in MS: Christine Collin, consultant in Neurological Rehabilitation Medicine; Rachel Botell, specialist registrar in Neurological Rehabilitation Medicine
The UK Multiple Sclerosis Tissue Bank: Dr Abhi Vora, Manager, The UK Multiple Sclerosis Tissue Bank
Issues around pain in MS: Kathryn Johnson Hoffman, research psychologist

Way Ahead Volume 8 Part 4 (January 2005)

What drives Quality of Life in MS?
A 'Mums and Tots' group with a difference: an MS specific support group: MF Jackson, MS specialist nurse
Action on Neurology
MS Trust/ MS Society Care staff course: Emma Tatnall, care assistant

Way Ahead Volume 8 Part 3 (October 2004)

New decision aid website for patients considering disease-modifying drugs: Geraldine Mynors, Medicines Partnership; Dr Duncan Short, Keele University
Hospice based community specialist neurology support service: Janet Johnson, neurology support nurse
Maintaining the momentum: developing a self-management group for people with multiple sclerosis: Susan Stutely, MS & MND nurse specialist; Margaret Hewett, clinical specialist physiotherapist; Pat Wheeler, senior occupational therapist

Way Ahead Volume 8 Part 2 (July 2004)

From guidelines to practice: getting started: Bernadette Porter, MS nurse consultant
Practical management of cognitive impairments associated with MS: Patrick Carroll, clinical specialist occupational therapist
Aerobic exercise for people with multiple sclerosis: Joanna Kileff, senior physiotherapist
Disability assessment in multiple sclerosis: L Nicholl, JC Hobart, L Dunwoody, AFL Cramp, AS Lowe-Strong

Way Ahead Volume 8 Part 1 (April 2004)

Working with MS from both sides of the fence: Alison J Dunsmore, senior radiographer
The oral health of people with multiple sclerosis: Wendy Baird, Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Leicester
Bladder dysfunction and multiple sclerosis: a novel approach: Doreen McClurg, Robin Ashe, Kaye Marshall, Andrea Lowe-Strong

Way Ahead Volume 7 Part 4 (January 2003)

The use of a driving audit to assist service planning: Michelle Ennis, MS Team occupational therapist
The role of the specialist physiotherapist in the management of spasticity: Louise Lockley, clinical specialist physiotherapist
Pressure ulcer risk in seated persons: report on a study to evaluate factors for inclusion in a new self-administered risk assessment tool: Jenny Wall, senior lecturer

Way Ahead Volume 7 Part 3 (October 2003)

Going down under: Vicki Gutteridge, MS specialist nurse
A pilot evaluation of an interactive website for people with multiple sclerosis: the participants' perspective: Jill Fyfe

Way Ahead Volume 7 Part 2 (July 2003)

The immunology of multiple sclerosis: Alasdair Coles, neurologist
'What does it all mean for the health professional at the coalface?': Steven Bloch, lecturer/clinical tutor, Human Communication Science
The early introduction to alternative methods of feeding including percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG): Rachael Marsden, MND Care Centre coordinator

Way Ahead Volume 7 Part 1 (April 2003)

Multiple sclerosis in black Caribbean patients born in the UK: Is it the same illness or different to that seen in a similar white population?: Pauline Shaw, MS specialist nurse
Abnormal mental states in multiple sclerosis: Hugh Rickards, consultant in neuropsychiatry
The management of indwelling catheters for people with multiple sclerosis using bladder irrigation: Pauline Howard, continence advisor

Way Ahead Volume 6 Part 4 (January 2003)

Beta interferon therapy in multiple sclerosis: an audit of patients in North Staffordshire Hospital Trust: Nikki Embrey, MS specialist nurse
Quality of life and people with MS: patients' and proxies' ratings: Elina Tripoliti, speech & language therapist
Functional Electrical Stimulation in MS: Department of Medical Physics, Salisbury District Hospital

Way Ahead Volume 6 Part 3 (October 2002)

A randomised controlled trial comparing rehabilitation against standard therapy in multiple sclerosis patients receiving intravenous steroid treatment: Jenny Craig, physiotherapist
Group therapy for people with multiple sclerosis improves compliance with home exercise programme: Sonia Somers, senior physiotherapist

Way Ahead Volume 6 Part 2 (June 2002)

Patient-centred outcome measures: Afsane Riazi
Generalists and specialists: identifying roles within interdisciplinary teams: Fiona M Shield, project director, Institute of General Practice & Primary Care
The role of an orthoptist in an MS multidisciplinary team - a personal view: Val Trimble, orthopist

Way Ahead Volume 6 Part 1 (March 2002)

Does early treatment of multiple sclerosis prevent the progression of disability later on?: Alasdair Coles, neurologist, Amanda Cox, research fellow
Audit into the effectiveness of gabapentin in multiple sclerosis pain: Nikki Embrey, MS specialist nurse, Claire Lowndes, MS specialist nurse
Carer stress scales: are they valid for the caregivers of younger disabled people?: Liz Hatch, Gail Hayes, Carol Griffith, John Burn, Roger Baker

Way Ahead Volume 5 Part 4 (December 2001)

Challenging assumptions of care: Lynda Hind, neurological nurse specialist
Addressing the dying issue: Gail Hayes, MS specialist nurse

Way Ahead Volume 5 Part 3 (September 2001)

Premenstrual worsening of MS symptoms: Sally Wilson, MS research co-ordinator
Homoeopathy and multiple sclerosis: Tom Whitmarsh, Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital

Way Ahead Volume 5 Part 2 (June 2001)

Taking Control - a pack to facilitate teaching people newly diagnosed With MS: Megan Burgess, Melissa Brechin, Jill Dunk, Nikki Embrey, Fiona Lynch, Julie O'Sullivan
Classifying disability: does it make a difference?: Steven Bloch, speech & language therapist

Way Ahead Volume 5 Part 1 (March 2001)

Providing neurorehabilitation services to people with MS: D Thomas, L Jarrett, B Porter, C Jewell, A Holland, L Turkington, ED Playford
Personal views of rehabilitation: Two users of rehabilitation services

Way Ahead Volume 4 Part 4 (November 2000)

Physiotherapy for people with MS: Liz Betts, senior physiotherapist
Personal exercise training for people with MS: a case study: Michael Hills, sport and exercise science consultant

Way Ahead Volume 4 Part 3 (August 2000)

Stress management through meditation: Steve Brisk, counsellor
Acupuncture and MS: practical applications: Jill Brookes, acupuncturist

Way Ahead Volume 4 Part 2 (June 2000)

The Role of the UK Multiple Sclerosis Tissue Bank: Dr Abhi Vora, manager of the UK MS Tissue Bank
Acupuncture and MS: theory and practice: Jill Brookes, acupuncturist

Way Ahead Volume 4 Part 1 (March 2000)

Pain in multiple sclerosis: Amanda Howarth, clinical nurse specialist - pain management
Maintaining mobility - a physio perspective: Sally Atkinson, senior physiotherapist

Way Ahead

Way Ahead Volume 12 Part 4 (September 2008)

Way Ahead Volume 12 Part 3 (June 2008)

Way Ahead Volume 12 Part 2 (April 2008)

Way Ahead Volume 12 Part 1 (January 2008)

Way Ahead Volume 11 Part 4 (October 2007)

Way Ahead Volume 11 Part 3 (June2007)

Way Ahead Volume 11 Part 2 (April 2007)

Way Ahead Volume 11 Part 1 (January 2007)

Way Ahead Volume 10 Part 4 (October 2006)

Way Ahead Volume 10 Part 3 (July 2006)

Way Ahead Volume 10 Part 2 (April 2006)

Way Ahead Volume 10 Part 1 (January 2006)

Way Ahead Volume 9 Part 3/4 (October 2005)

Way Ahead Volume 9 Part 2 (July 2005)