Migraine Awareness Week 2025: Highlight one of the UK's busiest headache services
To highlight one of our busiest services, Headache Service Lead Consultant Neurologist Dr Mona Ghadiri-Sana describes what goes into delivering outstanding, cutting-edge treatment for our patients.
The Walton Centre's headache service covers a wide geographical and population area of about 3.5 million people. We also regularly manage patients referred to us nationally.
We are one the biggest headache centres in the country, with four specialist consultants, with myself as the service lead, four specialist nurses, one headache coordinator as well support secretaries. We manage patients with a wide range of refractory headache disorders, and offer the latest treatments in headache management, including onabotulinum toxin, cranial nerve blocks, gammacore, CGRP targeted treatments including CGRP monoclonal antibodies and gpants and many more.
We work closely with our colleagues in pain and neurosurgical divisions to escalate care for those patients, who's conditions do not respond to medical management. We have the largest CGRP targeted cohort of patients in the country.
We have one of the most comprehensiveIdiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) multidisciplinary teams in the country.
We are at the forefront of research and have been involved in the trials for many advanced treatments outlined above, and are currently recruiting patients who have menstrual related migraines.
We are actively involved in education and have our fourth annual north west training event in October (2025).
We continue to present our work nationally and internationally as well as continuing to improve the service through our continued learning.