EPILEPSY TREATMENTS

Early day motion 758, tabled 3 March 2004 by John Battle (Labour). Signed by 82 members.

That this House welcomes the recent national initiatives relating to the treatment of epilepsy; calls on the Government to recognise the need for additional epilepsy-specific measures to enable local implementation of those initiatives; believes that without such measures people with epilepsy will remain exposed to a risk of misdiagnosis by non-specialists, possibly as high as 20 to 25 per cent., as highlighted by the Holton Inquiry; and notes that such people will also be at risk of sudden death in epilepsy and will lack access to many basic choices that lead to a good quality of life.

Signatures by party: Labour 47, Liberal Democrat 18, Conservative 10, Labour/Co-operative 3, DUP 2, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1.