Our conference this year will take place on 9th June 2024 in Liverpool. Full details and online booking to follow.

Dr Anish Bahra, Winner of the Les Charlton Award 2023

We are delighted to announce that Dr Anish Bahra, Consultant Neurologist, was presented with the Les Charlton Award at our Summer Conference earlier this month. This award is given to honour the memory of our late, great chairman and we're sure Les would agree with our choice of recipient. Dr Bahra was also awarded an OUCH (UK) Honorary Lifetime Member certificate.
 
The awards are in acknowledgement of Dr Bahra's dedication to cluster headache/TAC sufferers and to show our appreciation of her continued support of this charity. 

Have you ever thought of offering your services as a volunteer? Do you have skills that could help your charity? If you feel you have the time and commitment, OUCH (UK) is looking for volunteers.

Experience in PR, editorial, IT skills or a background in fundraising would be particularly useful. Advice Line volunteers will receive necessary training.

For further information please contact: submissions@ouchuk.org

This is a great opportunity for those of you who want to do their bit for other sufferers and support this unique and much needed charity.

Thanking you in anticipation,

The Board of...

The Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) would like to invite a small number of cluster headache patients who have personally used a gammaCore device to take part in an NHS England project.  The aim of the project is to help improve patient experience when introducing new innovations into the NHS, what can we learn, and what can we improve upon?  

The main aim of the project is to increase patient benefit by finding out through an interview how/where patient experience and insight can help improve the way future products or services are delivered in the NHS.  Asking for patient insight is very important to this project as we want to collect your real-life experiences and ideas, to make positive changes to...

We have been advised by the NHS National Patient Safety Group to remind you of safe usage of oxygen during any power cuts, which are likely to happen this winter.  

DO NOT USE CANDLES OR ANY NAKED FLAME DURING POWER CUTS.  

Oxygen is absorbed into the skin and clothing and even if you have stopped using the oxygen, you are still at risk after switching it off, even if you go into another room.  We suggest that you keep a torch and spare batteries near your oxygen cylinder and equipment, or a battery powered lantern, in case of a power cut.   

Your oxygen supplier will be contacting you with a similar message and may have already done so. 

We are fortunate that the oxygen therapy used...