Innovating Headache Care: Service setup and redesign benefits

Neurology Academy will host a live webinar on Thursday, 23rd October at 12:45. You are invited to watch the webinar from your computer or tablet. We will be live for 1 hour 20 minutes via Zoom and a recording of the Neurology Academy session will be available following the meeting.

12:45 – 13:30 Neurology Academy session

13:30 – 13:35 Break

13:35 – 14:05 Teva UK Limited promotional satellite symposium

Neurology Academy session

Headache disorders are among the most common neurological condition worldwide. Globally, around 50% of adults experience a headache each year with migraine alone affecting over 1 billion people and ranking as the second leading cause of years lived with disability (GBD,2019)

Headache is the commonest neurological presentation and causes huge demand on both primary care and neurology services. 4% of neurology consultant referrals annually are for headache alone, many patients with headache disorders are contributing to the backlog of out-patient waiting times which Trusts are working hard to address.

Headache assessment and treatment for common headache disorders such as migraine, should be undertaken jointly between primary and secondary care. This may include intermediate community services, including GP’s with extended role, headache nurse specialists, headache services and self management programmes. Clearly we need to build capacity in systems so that more people with headache can be managed by competent professionals who can also advise them on how they can self manage and prevent headaches reoccurring.

Whether you’re a neurologist, specialist nurse, nurse, GP or allied health professional, this session is designed to enhance your knowledge, improve clinical confidence, and support collaborative care planning for clinicians wanting to consider new ways to deliver headache services. This webinar will provide details on how a nurse specialist can support headache management more efficiently and discuss how you may develop a similar service in your own neighbourhood.

Objectives

• To highlight how the headache nurse specialist can improve management of people with
  headache
• Detail how a post has been established in the community in NE Cumbria
• Provide example case studies from clinical practice

This webinar has received sponsorship from Teva UK Limited. The first session is designed and delivered by the Neurology Academy and sponsored by Teva UK Limited; the sponsor has had no input into the educational content or organisation of the session.

The second session is a promotional satellite symposium, organised and funded by Teva UK Limited. This satellite symposium is intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only.

Teva UK Limited: promotional satellite symposium
Delivering Excellence in Migraine Management: A Service-Led Approach

This webinar segment aims to share best practice for migraine management and how to run an efficient service and therefore will focus on:

• Burden of migraine on patients and the NHS
• Recommendations for how to run a migraine service with a small MDT team
• Recommendations for reducing the waiting list, time and resources for migraine case load management