Review Of Epilepsy Action Plan

EDM number 1617 in 2007-08, proposed by Paul Truswell on 20/05/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Health services.

That this House welcomes National Epilepsy Week from 18th to 24th May; notes the findings of the All-party Parliamentary Group on Epilepsy that 400 lives are lost each year owing to failures to deliver good quality services to people with epilepsy, that 69,000 people with epilepsy are suffering unnecessary seizures, that 74,000 people are taking powerful drugs they do not need, and that £189 million could be saved each year by improving the service; and calls upon the Government to set review dates for the 2003 Action Plan for Epilepsy and the 2005 National Service Framework for Long-Term Neurological Conditions.

This motion has been signed by a total of 56 MPs.