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Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery 2024-05-15 Person 5 5 0

I live in the Midlands and the Walton Centre is one of only a few places in the country where focussed ultrasound treatment is carried out on the NHS for people with an essential tremor. So although I had to travel for my appointments and treatments, it was well worth attending this specialist neurology hospital. Appointments were made for me that took my necessary travel arrangements into consideration. I received excellent care from Dr Panicker (neurologist), Mr Farah (surgeon), and all the experts and nursing staff and clerical staff too. The whole team made the assessments, the pre op and other tests (Psychology) as painless as possible. In terms of physical pain during the procedure, the anaesthetist was excellent and I didn't feel a thing during the procedure. I would also like to thank the nurse who shaved my head for being friendly and caring too. I was told during my consultations that, as my tremors were "off the scale in severity" that I couldn't expect to be tremor free in the treated hand and subsequently some of my tremor has returned. So I appreciate this honesty as it prepared me for the outcome. Even though some of my tremor has returned I would definitely do it again as the Walton Centre really is a centre of excellence. I thoroughly recommend this hospital.