Epilepsy - Living with epilepsy workshop

• Take home our ‘eight steps to better treatment’
• Find out about epilepsy treatments that may work for you
• Hear from medical experts about other treatments
• Get practical information on benefits & equality

To book your place go online epilepsy.org.uk/derrylondonderry, or telephone 0113 210 8781 or 0113 210 8885.

Prices include refreshments and buffet lunch

 £10 full price    £6.00 for unwaged

£8.00 for Epilepsy Action members  £4.00 for Epilepsy Action unwaged member

10.00am      Registration and tea/coffee

10.30am     Chair - welcome and housekeeping
                  Jim Morrow, Epilepsy Action Council of Management

10.35am     The work of Epilepsy Action Northern Ireland
                   Helen Murray-Sharpe, national manager for local services

10.45am     Treating difficult to control epilepsy
                    Dr Neil Corrigan, Consultant Paediatrician and Kerrie Kerrigan, Paediatric Epilepsy Nurse  Specialist, Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry/Londonderry

11.30am       Comfort Break

11.45am     VNS and surgery as treatment options
                    Dr Sandya Tirupathi, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Royal Belfast Hospital for sick children

12.30pm     Emotional wellbeing and epilepsy
                    Dr Nigel Lyttle, Clinical Psychologist, (Neuropsychology)
                    Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Queen's University Belfast

1.15pm        Lunch
2.00pm        Preparation of breakout rooms

2.15pm      Workshop session one (45 minutes)
3.10pm      Workshop session two (45 minutes)

The following workshops will run twice, giving everyone the opportunity to attend both:

Equality and epilepsy; your rights in the workplace, education and accessing services

Mary McSorley, Equality Commission NI

Improving benefit uptake and PIP

        Ryan Tierney, Local Outreach Officer,
        Department of Communities

3.55pm     Closing remarks in each workshop.

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