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Call for improvement
The Chief Medical Officer has criticised the "serious and long-standing weaknesses" in health services for people with epilepsy. In his annual report*, Professor Liam Donaldson said that there should be a commitment to improve epilepsy care in England. Among his recommendations, he called for greater awareness, a reduction in deaths from epilepsy, better training, and improved care for pregnant women with the condition. He said five government reports since 1953 have concluded that services were "fragmented and poorly co-ordinated", without major improvement. "Up to a fifth of epilepsy patients are misdiagnosed and receive inappropriate and unnecessary treatment, and one in 12 people with epilepsy are not referred to a specialist. Philip Lee, chief executive of the British Epilepsy Association, welcomed the report, and said: "BEA hopes that this report will be acted upon by decision makers, unlike the previous five reports into epilepsy provision." * The report is at www.doh.gov.uk/cmo/annualreport2001 Posted: 17 Jan, 2002
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