Its National Epilepsy Week this week. There are thousands of people with epilepsy in Suffolk (I am one) and the effects of this condition are felt by a much wider circle: their relatives, carers, friends, employers. Yet our lawmakers remain uninterested.

The first ever Epilepsy debate in parliament in February which I attended  – see my disenchanted comments here – attracted 5 Tory MPs out of 302 (1 in 60); 7 Labour MPs out of 256 (1 in 36.5) and 4 LibDem MPs out of 56 (1 in 14).

Shameful.

Lets try and encourage this intake to be more interested.

Write you your MP today and tell her what it is like, and how it impacts upon your life – and the cost to you, your family and Suffolk services of not having a joined-up response. Details via Epilepsy Society page.