P-CNS Connect

The P-CNS plans to develop a web-based database and network of healthcare professionals who can share experiences and expertise to help improve the deliver of primary care neurology services. We plan to achieve this by creating and offering a simple and easy to use web-based tool that gives the healthcare professional immediate, direct and secure access to fellow professionals anywhere in the UK.

The development of P-CNS Connect will:

• Support the networking of professionals interested in neurology in primary care.
• Offer regular opportunities for online discussions and also encourages the creation of "offline" local interest groups.
• Encourage people to share best practice, expertise and experience with fellow health professionals.
• Offer access to education materials matched to the interests of an individual

P-CNS Connect will be developed to encourage people to discuss ways of improving early recognition, prompt diagnosis, appropriate referral and treatment. This will be done as a searchable function, and as part of the profiling system so that by using key words a registered user will be able to find people on the system who can help them in these important aspects of the National Service Framework for Long-term Conditions.

P-CNS Connect will also enable general questions to be asked across the network. This will facilitate the sharing of ideas and good practice.