Centre for Epilepsy

HC Deb 10 July 1995 vol 263 c435W

Sir Donald Thompson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the future of the Centre for Epilepsy. [31862]

Mr. Bowis

I have the personal written assurance of the chairman of the King's Healthcare national health service trust, Mr. Stanley Kalms, that the trust will encourage the development of specialised multidisciplinary treatment and care for people with epilepsy and will help the centre to establish itself as the focus for this.

At present, the Centre for Epilepsy is established at the Maudsley hospital site. Owing to the current reorganisation of neurosciences services at the Maudsley, the centre has recently moved into temporary accommodation. The chief executive of the trust, has assured me at a meeting on 26 June, that the centre will return to permanent accommodation within the Maudsley hospital during November this year.