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Service detail
The Neurology service provides specialist care to patients across Cheshire, Merseyside, North Wales and the Isle of Man. Our network of satellite clinics operates from 15 acute hospitals, providing both outpatient services and support to inpatients. It is a large and busy neurology service which in 2020/21, saw almost 70,000 new and follow up outpatients and treated over 3,500 inpatients in either The Walton Centre’s day case or ward facilities.
A multi-skilled professional team includes 46 consultants and 28 specialist nurses, who work alongside an experienced therapy team to provide the holistic and multidisciplinary care required for our patients. Sub-speciality clinics are also provided in epilepsy, movement disorders, headache, neuromuscular, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, vascular and neuro myelitis optica.
Dr Anita Krishnan is the Divisional Clinical Director for Neurology. Dr Jay Panicker is the Clinical Director for Neurology.
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Neurology Consultants
Dr Nicholas Silver
Dr Silver established the headache service at The Walton Centre in 2004 and since that time has expanded this service to include four headache subspecialist consultants and two clinical nurse specialists.
Dr Sundus Alusi
Dr Sundus Alusi has been a Consultant Neurologist since 2004 and has a special interest in movement disorders. Since 2020 she has been the clinical lead for movement disorders at The Walton Centre.
Dr Christine Burness
Dr Christine Burness is a Consultant Neurologist at The Walton Centre. She is joint clinical lead of the Functional Neurology Team and also the Trust Guardian of Junior Doctor Safe Working.
Dr Jay Panicker
Dr Panicker is the Clinical Director for Neurology and a Consultant Neurologist.
Dr Wojciech Pietkiewicz
Dr Wojciech Pietkiewicz is a Consultant Neurologist at The Walton Centre.
Dr Rhys Davies
Dr Rhys Davies is the Dementia Lead and the Clinical Director of Medical Education and Research at The Walton Centre.
Dr Roger Mills
Dr Roger Mills is a Consultant Neurologist at The Walton Centre specialising in multiple sclerosis.
Dr Baba Aji
Dr Aji is currently a Consultant Neurologist, specialising in epilepsy at The Walton Centre and also provide general neurology clinics to Ysbyty Gwynedd and in North Wales.
Related Services
Neuromyelitis optica
Neuromyelitis Optica is a rare neurological condition and is characterised by relapses affecting the optic nerves and spinal cord.
Headache service
The headache service provides clinics to support four consultants specialising in headaches
Functional Neurological Disorders Service (FNDS)
The Functional Neurological Disorders Service provides multidisciplinary assessment and onward referral to appropriate treatment services.
Epilepsy Specialist Nurse Service
Our specialist nurse service provides patients, families, carers and other health professionals information and advice regarding epilepsy and its management.
Multiple sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common potentially disabling disease of the central nervous system affecting young adults.
Epilepsy
The Walton Centre has a world-class reputation for our epilepsy service. Our epilepsy services are huge and comprehensive, including specialist video-telemetry diagnostics, an epilepsy surgery programme - offering the full range of procedures - and specialist neuropsychological support for patients with epilepsy and those with non-epileptic attack disorder.
Parkinson's disease Nurse Specialists
Providing specialist advice, support and education for patients, and their carers, who have Parkinson’s disease and related disorders
Multiple sclerosis (MS) nurse service
The MS nurse service offers support, advice, information and education to those with a diagnosis of MS.
Neuromuscular disorders
We offer a comprehensive diagnostic, therapeutic and support service for adult patients with neuromuscular disorders (NMD)
Motor neurone disease
Motor neurone disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the upper and lower motor neurones.
Cognitive neurology
Cognitive neurology is the field that deals with brain diseases which primarily affect thinking.
Integrated Neurology Nurse Service
The Integrated Neurology Nurse Service (INNS) was created to bring care closer to patients in their own communities.
Neurogenetic disorders
The Walton Centre runs a clinic for patients with a range of neurogenetic disorders, principally various forms of cerebellar ataxias.
Page last updated: 10 August 2021
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