{"id":4173,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/neurology\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T09:58:47","slug":"neurology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/neurology\/","title":{"rendered":"Neurology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the NHS Lothian Neurology RefHelp homepage. Details regarding services may be found in this section, as well as advice on how to manage common (and benign) neurological conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All neurology SCI Gateway referrals are etriaged by&nbsp;Prof Jon Stone and Dr Richard Davenport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are happy to receive&nbsp;<strong>\u201cAdvice Only\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;referrals for individual patients\u2013&nbsp;<strong>please use SCI Gateway for this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have generic neurology queries,&nbsp;Dr Richard Davenport or Prof Jon Stone are available for discussion via NHS Lothian internal email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Headache where there is a suspicion of brain cancer\/tumour&nbsp;<em>(e.g. cognitive changes, Cancer\/HIV, focal signs, LOC..etc)<\/em>, please refer to this page Radiology&gt;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.nhslothian.scot%2Frefhelp%2Fheadache-suspicious-of-cancer%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CHeather.Levy%40nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk%7C5246812a50cc432c491e08daf96a743e%7C10efe0bda0304bca809cb5e6745e499a%7C0%7C0%7C638096532849011741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=YYkEI65tXgVBaOLtxE8UYtEGYxCv0DNFzc8fqBqpqZU%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">Headache Suspicious of Cancer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M.A. &amp; R.D. 20-12-22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Resources and Links<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/assessing-fitness-to-drive-a-guide-for-medical-professionals\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/assessing-fitness-to-drive-a-guide-for-medical-professionals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fitness to Drive (gov.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/Neurological-Alliance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neurological Alliance<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sign.ac.uk\/our-guidelines\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sign.ac.uk\/our-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the NHS Lothian Neurology RefHelp homepage. Details regarding services may be found in this section, as well as advice on how to manage common (and benign) neurological conditions. All neurology SCI Gateway referrals are etriaged by&nbsp;Prof Jon Stone and Dr Richard Davenport. We are happy to receive&nbsp;&ldquo;Advice Only&rdquo;&nbsp;referrals for individual patients&ndash;&nbsp;please use SCI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3664,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[428],"class_list":["post-4173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-neurology"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/neurology\/\" rel=\"tag\">Neurology<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Welcome to the NHS Lothian Neurology RefHelp homepage. Details regarding services may be found in this section, as well as advice on how to manage common (and benign) neurological conditions. All neurology SCI Gateway referrals are etriaged by&nbsp;Prof Jon Stone and Dr Richard Davenport. We are happy to receive&nbsp;&ldquo;Advice Only&rdquo;&nbsp;referrals for individual patients&ndash;&nbsp;please use SCI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22154,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4173\/revisions\/22154"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}