Service organisation and delivery - Global Campaign against Headache
Service organisation and delivery
Service organisation and delivery
The Global Campaign, in various world locations, requires healthcare solutions to the problem of headache, as it exists locally. These solutions generally depend either upon the planning and implementation of new headache services or upon improvement of those that currently exist, in either case seeking to achieve the best possible.
There are key questions to be answered in each case: how should headache services be structured, organised and delivered: where, to whom, by whom, how much and with what objectives? The answers often depend upon resource-availability.
There is general agreement that headache services should be based in primary care, and we have contributed to the development of an organisational model on three levels: primary care, an intermediate level, and specialist headache care reserved for the quite small proportion of people (maybe 1%) who need it. The model is for Europe, but adaptable for less well-resourced countries (which is the focus of our current work).
Collaborators:
- F Antonaci, University Consortium for Adaptive Disorders and Headache (UCADH), Pavia, and Headache Medicine Centre, Policlinic of Monza, Monza, Italy
- R Jensen, Danish Headache Centre, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
- MJA Láinez, Hospital General Universitario, Valencia, Spain
- M Lanteri-Minet, Pôle des neurosciences cliniques, CHU de Nice, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France
- D Valade, Centre d'Urgence des Céphalées, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France