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May 4, 2020

Responding to COVID-19: GAIN

Responding to COVID-19: voices from our membership The Guillain-Barré & Associated Inflammatory Neuropathies (GAIN) team support people affected by Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) in the UK and Ireland. Chief Executive Caroline Morrice blogs about the challenges facing those they support, and how the team is adapting to a new normal. When we […]
March 12, 2020

Chief Exec Reflects

In our new blog post, below, our Chief Executive Georgina Carr reflects on her first month working at The Neurological Alliance. What a difference a month makes I have been in post for just over six weeks now, and it has been a fantastic whirlwind of listening, learning and very warm welcomes from across the sector. I […]
March 11, 2020

Why I’ve launched a petition for better social care – Nikkita Otu

My name is Nikkita Otu. I was 18 when I was diagnosed with severe epilepsy, but I started having seizures as early as 18 months old. There were years in-between when I didn’t have any seizures, but when they returned, they got worse. Now, I’m 29 years old, and a mum to my son. I […]