Health Professionals Blog
Featured in this feed are blogs written for and by health and social care professionals working with people affected by MS.
Topics covered include everything from service development to care for people with advanced MS, from use of technology in MS care to career development for MS specialists. Would you like to write a blog for us? Do you have any ideas for topics you'd like to see? Get in touch and let us know!
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Lynn Watson from the Swansea Neuro Inflammatory Service describes how their team participated in a study aimed at getting the most out of patient annual reviews by using the MS Self-Reported Assessment Tool.
Ben Dorward, lead neurosciences pharmacist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, describes his project - to jointly develop an IT system that links prescription management to blood monitoring and can be accessed by the MS and pharmacy teams.
Specialist Neurological Occupational Therapist Emma Royal explains how her service undertook a project which looked at overcoming barriers to progressing with rehabilitation, using applied behavioural change theory.
On Friday 20 April, PharmaPhorum hosted a webinar for health professionals in MS. The topic was Digital Health: how can technology be used to engage hard-to-reach patients and assist with patient monitoring? This blog summarises the discussions and topics covered during the webinar.
How can MS Health Professionals provide a safe, constructive space in which to discuss the problems people may be experiencing around sex, sexuality and intimacy? And how can Health Professionals feel more comfortable talking about this themselves? Nicki Abel, Lesley Catterall, and Denise Middleton, MS specialist nurses, are here to help...
Daisy Doncaster – Programme Officer for the Advanced MS Champions Programme – reports from the House of Lords on 20 February, when the MS Trust formally launched this vital project.
This blog is intended for Health and Social Care Professionals working with people with MS. This post contains information on: MS-specific updates, NHS England updates, and recent Government announcements relevant to MS.
This blog is intended for Health and Social Care Professionals working with people with MS. This post contains information on: MS-specific updates, NHS England updates, and recent Government announcements relevant to MS.
Last year Verity Duff from North Northamptonshire came on our foundation course for new MS nurses. We caught up with her to find out about her first year as an MS nurse.
Amanda Barrell, of Lemonade Studio, reports on the MS Trust’s 21st annual conference for health professionals in MS.
