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Our Plan
P-CNS’s Vision
The P-CNS’s vision is for sustainable provision of consistent
and high quality neurological care and education services across
primary care.
P-CNS’s Mission
The P-CNS’s mission is to stimulate greater interest and awareness
of neurology across primary care in order to support delivery of
care to people with neurological conditions. We will do this by
delivering a service that encourages the sharing of best practice
among professionals with an interest in primary care neurology and
by creating practical and engaging education and training resources.
The P-CNS believes that improvements to the provision
of neurology education and information are best achieved by primarily
focusing on the needs of patients. The Society believes in developing
resources, in partnership with its supporters and supporting organisations/companies,
that encourage joined up thinking and more importantly identify
ways to build the relationship between professionals as well as
between professionals and patients in order to develop more efficient
treatment pathways.
It has established a strong foundation from which
it aims to continue to support the provision of neurology information
and education appropriately developed to meet the needs of those
working in and across the primary-secondary care interface.
Objectives
It is the P-CNS’s mission to stimulate greater
interest and awareness of neurology across primary care, initially
in the UK, but in the longer term, throughout Europe. It plans
to do this by:
- Developing an organisation that encourages the
sharing of best practice among professionals with an interest
in primary care neurology
- Supporting primary care professionals (PCPs)
as they seek to maximize the quality of life and wellbeing of
their patients with neurological conditions
- Working with its supporters to encourage them
to create and provide access to practical and engaging education
and training resources to improve primary care neurology services
- Fostering ways to improve the recognition
of neurological symptoms in primary care and where necessary ensuring
appropriate referral to specialist services
- Identifying ways of strengthening the relationship
between primary and secondary care professionals working in neurology
- Extending its network through linking with
other organisations such as the Association of British Neurologists
and Specialist Nurse and Practitioner/Therapists Associations
and connecting appropriate individuals, organisations and sponsors
together to develop learning networks and enable the efficient
dissemination of information and education to PCPs
- Enabling coherent and whole systems approaches
to dealing with neurological conditions and the multiple morbidities
that are often present
The main aims and objectives of the P-CNS are
to:
- Strengthen its position as a Society established
by Primary Care professionals working in primary care settings
to develop capacity in primary care
- Encourage networking among professionals with
an interest in primary care neurology
- Identify ways to improve recognition of neurological
symptoms in primary care and where necessary ensuring appropriate
referral to specialist services
- Provide access to high quality information
and education support to professionals with an interest in primary
care neurology
- Promote and encourage research in primary
care neurology
- Stimulate meaningful partnerships with Primary
Care Trusts
- Build ethical and explicit partnerships with
the healthcare industry
The Society plans to develop a structure so that
major prevalent neurological conditions are represented by the P-CNS
at a subcommittee level. This approach has been proposed to ensure
that the organisation truly represents the major neurological conditions
encountered by primary care professionals but at the same time it
is an organisation that is not overly bureaucratic.
The initial focus for the society has been in the following areas:
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Epilepsy
- Head injury and rehabilitation
- Migraine/Headache
- Pain
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Psychological Co-morbidities
- Stroke
The Society is also keen to help raise awareness
of less common neurological disorders such as Motor Neurone Disease
and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.
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