Katie Hanson Clinical Nurse Specialist in MS, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Katie works with adolescents, providing information and support to help them make decisions about their treatment. She helps them prepare for transition to adult services, leaving home and / or starting university. Katie also provides counsel on a more personal level, covering topics such as contraception, drugs and alcohol use. Katie is currently in the process of setting up a working group of MS nurses and teams from around the country and has organised an event to encourage discussion of treatments and new research. The group will also discuss the working practices and systems in place at each of their centres (related to diagnosis and treatment), with a focus on paediatric MS. Katie aims to encourage sharing of best practice and improvement of care by peer-to-peer learning.
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