Submitted on Wednesday 4th November 2015
Rejected on Monday 9th November 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Creation of Neurosurgical service for intractable headache patients in Scotland
There are no Neurosurgeons based in Scotland who perform ONS (Occipital Nerve Stimulation) on intractable headache sufferers such as Chronic Migraine, New Daily Persistent Headache (NDPH), Occipital Neuralgia, and Hemicrania Continua.
This means all patients must be referred to England.
With regard to Chronic Migraine, It is estimated that this condition affects fewer than 1 percent of the population, but this still means that there over 610,000 chronic migraine sufferers in the UK. Due to the nature and length of time that the sufferer is affected, people with chronic migraine experience significantly more time absent from work, school, leisure, housework and social activities than episodic migraine patients. Often these patients are entirely unresponsive to all treatments.
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