Norfolk Community Neurology Service

We offer emotional and practical support and advice to people who have been diagnosed with neurological conditions like Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease, Motor Neurone disease or Huntington's disease. We also support and offer advice to their families and friends.

Our team includes Specialist Neurology Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Clinical Psychologist and highly skilled Community Assistant Practitioners.

Our specialist multi-disciplinary team assess people's physical, emotional and psychological needs using functional and standardised assessments. This ensures adults with a neurological condition can live and work to their maximum ability.

We provide support in lots of different ways, including:

• initial support at diagnosis
• tone management, positioning and manual handling advice
• medicines management and review
• swallow assessment and management for patients who cannot travel to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• re-education of movement, function, and specialist equipment assessment
• return to work, social integration and specialist gym programmes
• cognitive assessment including visual, perceptual, memory and executive functioning
• communication assessment treatment and advice by a Speech and Language Therapist
• carer, family and health professionals education and support