National Centre
for Epilepsy
Manor House,
Church Road,
Malahide,
Co. Dublin
Ireland.
Development Project
Office: 01 845 48 86
E:info@nationalepilepsycentre.ie
for Epilepsy
Manor House,
Church Road,
Malahide,
Co. Dublin
Ireland.
Development Project
Office: 01 845 48 86
E:info@nationalepilepsycentre.ie
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Assessment
Medical Functions
The National Centre for Epilepsy (NCE) will provide optimum disciplinary and hilistic care for patients with Epilepsy and related disorders in an independent state of the art environment. It will incorporate forty short term residential units. These units will cater for patients on an individual basis or those who require an accompanying parent or ongoing carer. The units will be equipped with Video Electroencephalograph (EEG) systems.
The centre will also have independent Magnetic Imaging Resonance (MRI) and Radiography facilities for bothe medical and research purposes. Itw ill also provide an outpatient facility comprising of ten suites. A prarmacy facility will be included for the provision of drugs associated with Epilepsy and related disorders.
It will have formal links with the National Epilepsy Surgical Unit based at Beaumont Hospital. It is intended that much of the tertiary epilepsy care, including multi-disciplinary pre-surgical assessment currently carried out at Beaumont Hospital would take place at the NCE. The centre would also provide a resource for individuals and their neurologists throughout the country and will have links to similar centres abroad.
Medical functions to be carried out would include:
1. Clinical assessment of new patients with potential diagnosis of Epilepsy.
2. In patient and out patient care with neurology, neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology,
neuroimaging, neuropharmacology and neurophysiology.
3. Epilepsy specialist nursing.
4. Video Electroencephalograph Telemetry (EEG).
5. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
6. Pharmacological and biochemical evaluation.
7. An information telephone assistance service will also be provided in conjunction with
Brainwave the Irish Epilepsy Charity.
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