What is it about?
There have been significant advances in diagnostics and treatment for patients with Multiple Sclerosis in the past 25 years. The number of MS Specialist Nurses to support the growing number of patients diagnosed is still inadequate to meet demand.
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Why is it important?
This is important as we head towards the use of a new diagnostic criteria for MS will be seeing growing numbers of patients requiring support for their earlier diagnosis and monitoring on disease modifying treatments.
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MS Specialist Nurses need to ensure that their voices are heard to advocate for their services and especially for their patients. If nurses do not ensure that they are included in the planning and implementation of developments going forward, the likelihood that unsustainable changes will be made to services leading to burnout and loss of highly knowledgeable and skilled specialist practitioners. If MS Nurses are not "at the table" making their case, they will just be another item "on the menu" and the importance of the role lost.
Sarah Hughes
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
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This page is a summary of: Be at the table or be on the menu, British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, March 2025, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjnn.2025.0017.
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