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In 2016 the Neurological Alliance ran a patient experience survey, gathering over 7000 responses, from patients with neurological conditions living in England (see previous blog post). The findings were used to campaign for better services and support for people with neurological conditions.

We are pleased to introduce to you Linda Reynolds who has joined us as Helpline and Benefits Advisor.

Linda is married with one adult daughter and with a close relative who has narcolepsy and cataplexy. She has a rather eclectic work history ranging from lecturing to making designer wear, managing manufacturing departments and shops and ending as a civil servant working on Tax Credits and latterly Universal Credit.

We look forward to working with Linda to offer support and in particular help with benefits to the UK narcolepsy community.

Publishing this link to today’s British Medical Journal article on the use of the Pandemrix vaccine.

Have to question where the BMJ have been for the last 9 years and why they have chosen to focus on events in the Republic of Ireland.

That story needs telling but so do they all. Perhaps it felt a bit too difficult to publicise here when we needed support.

Numbers quoted from our website are historic & we were not contacted to re-validate ahead of this article being published.

We are now into the final few days before our annual conference in Manchester and are making great progress in pulling together the key themes & focus areas from our recent survey. We hope you all booked your tickets to hear and see the results first-hand as we prepare to translate these into our Narcolepsy Charter.