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 aim to 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 advances in 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.

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 in the UK. It plans to deliver on its objectives by:

• Encouraging 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 and GP Consortia
• Build ethical and explicit partnerships with the healthcare industry

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.