Assessment of health needs in multidisciplinary care
- Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Lower Lane, Fazakerley, Liverpool L9 7LJ
- Correspondence to: C A Young; carolyn.young{at}thewaltoncentre.nhs.uk
Comprehensive care for people with disabling neurological disease—finding the best approach
Comprehensive care for people with disabling neurological illnesses is widely acknowledged to require input from many specialisms. The foundation of such multifaceted care should be a detailed assessment of physical and psychosocial function and health needs, ideally by experienced individuals able to work in a transdisciplinary way and possessing excellent communication skills. Such individuals would be capable of both identifying a clinical problem, such as impaired heel strike, and determining the most appropriate treatment, such as stretches from the physiotherapist, botulinum toxin from the physician or orthopaedic release. Clearly clinicians with the wide training and experience for such …
