Huntingdonshire Community Multiple Sclerosis Specialist Nursing Team
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

The CPFT Huntingdonshire Community Multiple Sclerosis specialist nurses provide support for anyone with a confirmed MS diagnosis who is registered with a Huntingdonshire GP. They provide patient education, advice, symptom management, complex case management, carer support, emotional and psychological support, and liaison with other services, from diagnosis through to end of life. They offer appointments by phone, video, face-to-face in clinic or in people’s own homes. In addition, they provide MS education to other professionals.

It is a small team with two part-time MS specialist nurses, adding up to 1.2 WTE. They are based within a multidisciplinary community neuro rehab team and work closely with Physio, OT, and other AHP colleagues. Both Sarah and Ellie had extensive experience in various community and palliative care settings before taking up their roles as MS specialist nurses. They use this experience to inform their approach to working in partnership with their patients to maximise quality of life and manage symptoms. Sarah has been a Queen’s Nurse since 2012 and Ellie was also awarded the title in 2021.

To read the Judges’ Special Award case study including the solutions, results, and more. Click here and download the PDF or listen to pharmaphorum’s web editor Nicole Raleigh talking with Ellie and Sarah here.

Thank you to this year’s QuDoS in MS programme sponsors, Novartis and Roche.