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MS Service Provision in the UK 2019: Raising the Bar

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Caroline Wyatt (Broadcaster and MS Patient)

Objective: To give us a personal perspective of what it is like to have MS and how to navigate the NHS to get want you want.

MS Variance '19 – Dinner speech by Caroline Wyatt

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Alyson McGregor (National Director, Altogether Better)

Objective: To inspire us on how to work differently using a collaborative model using examples from other areas. How to judge success?

MS Variance '19 – Collaborative practice: working differently with people in communities

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Jerry Clough (Programme Director, OPTUM)

Objective: This session will examine how we can get MS services across the UK working together towards a common purpose, and how this could deliver on the ambition of reducing variation and improving the quality of diagnosis and care for people with MS.

MS Variance '19 – From ideas to action: How do we get the change we are looking for?

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Sue Thomas (CEO Commissioning Excellence, Wilmington Healthcare) 
and Martin Fischer (Director, Fischer Associates Ltd)

Objective: To review the current provision of MS specialist services in the context of how the NHS is being configured. The role of payers, for example, NHSE, in determining who can provide MS services. In addition, the emerging role of technology in improving access to MS services will be reviewed.

MS Variance '19 – Access to MS services: Can we improve on the current hub and spoke model?

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Prof Gavin Giovannoni (Professor of Neurology, Barts and The London)

Objective: To highlight the importance of the holistic management of MS with a focus on QoL and wellness as a treatment target for MS service.

MS Variance '19 – Lifelong brain health as a target for MS service provision

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How can we as HCPs address social determinants of health?
Dr Helen Ford (Consultant Neurologist, Leeds) and Prof Gavin Giovannoni (Professor of Neurology, Barts and The London)

Objective: To review how the social determinants of health affect disease, and MS, outcomes. To discuss social capital and how social prescribing may be useful for improving the QoL of people with MS.

MS Variance '19 – Workstream D: Social determinants of health

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