Those of you who follow us on Facebook may recall that we recently encouraged people to nominate us to ‘win’ Hugh Sykes. You managed to impress the people at BBC Radio 4 enough that they sent someone to the Clinic to make a little piece on migraine.

So tomorrow, Saturday 24th July 2010, at 17.50 we will feature on iPM. They were kind enough to send us a preview and in the 5-minute clip they have managed to capture a lot of the experiences of having migraine.

So do listen to it, if not live than it should be available on BBC iPlayer. You can also listen to the clip here.

Dr Blau
Prof MacGregor
Migraine Art Competition
Internship
Alexandra Rose Day
Gift Aid
Reseach Studies
Vagotomy and Migraine
Fundraising Run in September
New charity credit card
Aspirin as acute treatment
Menstrual Migraine – new findings

Dr J N Blau 1928 – 2010 It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr Nat Blau, who passed away on 26th June 2010 following a long battle with cancer. A co-founder of the Clinic, he worked tirelessly over the last 30 years and will be greatly missed by us all. Please join us in sharing our condolences with his wife, Jill and his children Justin, Adrian, and Rosie.
A full obituary will be placed on the website and will be included in the next newsletter.

Congratulations Professor MacGregor!
We are very thrilled to announce that our Director of Clinical Research has been awarded a personal Chair at the Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, the University of London.

Migraine Art
As part of our 30th Birthday celebrations we plan to focus on Migraine Art: we intend to hold a completion open to Children, Adults and possibly a special category for Art Students. We plan to invite art works not only illustrating the auras, and pain but also the experience when the migraine has lifted. We will then hold an exhibition of this work where the art works will be sold. We have been trying to gain sponsorship for the event for a considerable period of time. If any of you are aware of any organisations or individual who may be willing to sponsor this event please contact Heather.

Internship – do you know anyone looking to work in the 3rd sector?
If you are a graduate looking for your first job or looking for a change of direction into the charitable sector we have got the opportunities for you to build on your existing skill set and gain new ones.

We are looking for a high calibre individual, who would really value and make the most of the opportunity to work for a supportive organisation where their ideas, energy and enthusiasm would be valued. The role would be extremely varied ranging from fundraising & education events administration, to clinic administration and give plenty of opportunities for innovation. You must be IT literate, enjoy writing, hardworking, committed and enthusiastic.

You will receive an interesting mixture of experiences that would provide grounding for future roles in fundraising, educational event management, charity administration, and clinic administration.

This is a voluntary position; we pay a basic allowance to cover travel & any agreed out-of-pocket expenses.

If you are interested please email a copy of your CV together with a covering letter to heather.sim@migraineclinic.org.uk. IF you have any queries please contact Nanna Sandberg on 00 7251 3322.

Alexandra Rose Day – a big thanks to our volunteers on the day
We would like to send out a big thank you to the volunteers who took
collections tins around the City on Alexandra Rose Day
the 17th June. Our long-time supporters Mary,
Brendan and Jill were joined by Giovanna and Daniel.
Together they raised over £300!

For more information on Alexandra Rose Day please look here.

Gift Aid – The silver lining of the new 50% tax rate – Gift Aid and the new tax bracket
The new 50% tax band that came into effect on 6th April this year could be used to increase the value of your charitable donations.
Under the Government’s Gift Aid scheme, the Clinic can reclaim tax on the donations made by UK taxpayers. We, as a charity can claim the basic rate tax directly from HM Revenue & Customs. For individuals paying a higher rate of tax, the difference between the higher rate and the basic rate can be reclaimed by the individual or donated to charity.
This means that anyone who is in a higher tax bracket can either increase the amount of their donation significantly or reduce the cost of making charitable donations.

As an example a £100 donation from an individual paying basic rate income tax would become £125 including Gift Aid. From a person paying the 40% tax rate the total potential donation would be £160 if all the reclaimed tax was given to the charity.

With the new 50% tax rate the total potential donation from the starting £100 would be £176!

This new tax rate applies to people earning more than £150,000 per year and it has been estimated this will apply to more than 350,000 people in the UK. If you think reclaiming the higher rate tax seems too much of a hassle – please consider payroll giving. In practice this means all of these calculations are taken care of automatically through your payroll, minimizing the effort needed.

For more information please have a look at the HMRC website.

Research Studies
• A new drug trial for menstrual migraine has just started. This six month study involves takingprevention medication at the prone time and coming to see us each month after you have treated to give us a blood sample. You can continue your usual medication.
• We are also still looking for women who have migraine with their periods to come to the clinic to provide a saliva sample for genetic analysis. If you are coming to the Clinic, you may be asked at your visit if you would like to help.
• Women needed who do NOT have migraine! Do you know anyone who does not have migraine, is female and would be willing to make 1 or 2 visits to the Clinic to participate in the genetics study? If you work in London Alison would also be willing to visit your office to collect the saliva samples from willing volunteers.
• Gentlemen. We need you for research too! Please register you interest with Alison. We hope to tell you about our new migraine treatment study due to start at the end of the year, in the next newsletter. If your wife or female partner is lucky enough not to have migraine and would like to help with our genetics study, we would be delighted to hear from her.

Please contact our Research Sister Alison Frith to find out more or just register your interest in our projects. We need your help. There’s never any obligation to participate and we can reimburse your travel expenses. Email research@migraineclinic.org.uk

Does Vagotomy affect Migraine?
We are currently studying the effect of vagotomy on migraine. This operation to cut the vagus nerve was a treatment for stomach ulcers, although it is not common now. If you or anyone you know with migraine has had a vagotomy, we would be very interested to hear about the effect, if any, that the operation had on your migraine.

Please respond to research@migraineclinic.org.uk to let us know of your experience.

Fundraising – Would you like to begin the road to improving your fitness?
A few friends and staff from the Clinic are planning to take part in the 2010 adidas Women’s 5K Challenge in Hyde Park on Sunday 5th September 2010. The entrance fee is £15, the clinic will receive £5 of this. If you wish to get your friends and family to sponsor you and raise even more money for the clinic (thank you in advance!) please use Virgin Money website to set up a site. This is very useful as it takes the pain out of collecting the money and you can email the link to all your contacts! We can provide sponsorship forms if you wish.

If you are not sure that you are up to running 5k please do not worry, you can walk the race if you wish and children can accompany you. For some it may be the first of many fun runs! We look forward to meeting some of you on the 5th September. To register please follow this link and don’t forget to enter The City of London Migraine Clinic as your charity. Please contact Nanna if you have any questions.

Virgin Money Charity credit card
A new credit card available from Virgin Money allows you to donate up to 1.02% of all your card purchases to charity. Where most such credit cards are linked to a specific cause/charity, this card allows you to choose between all charities registered with Virgin Money Giving – which includes us. The money that you can choose to donate consists of 0.8% cash back which become just over 1% once gift aid is added (provided you are eligible for gift aid).
Before signing up to any credit agreement please ensure you are familiar with and understand the terms and conditions that apply.

News – Aspirin as Acute Treatment
Many of you may have read or heard about a study that was published in the middle of April about the efficacy of using aspirin to treat migraine attacks. We posted links on Facebook and Twitter for those of you who follow us there. This study was what is generally called a meta-analysis – meaning that it was a study of previously conducted studies. This gives more of an overview of all the research done on a specific topic, but can be more difficult to analyse as each study is done differently to the next – making the results hard to compare.
What the study suggests is that in 25% of cases aspirin will leave the person pain free within 2 hours. For half of people it will reduce the severity of the symptoms to mild in the same time. It was suggested that high dose aspirin (900g) in combination with metoclopromide is especially effective against migraine attacks. This combination is already recommended as an acute treatment by the British Association for the Study of Headaches (BASH) and is regularly recommended by the doctors at the Clinic.
As always it is important to discuss changes in the medication you use with your GP or another doctor to ensure this option is appropriate for you.

Menstrual Migraine
Published on 17th April, in the most recent edition of the journal Headache, our Medical Research Director Dr Anne MacGregor was the co-author of an article titled “Characteristics of Menstrual vs Nonmenstrual Migraine ”. The article discusses the results of a study on the differences between menstrual and nonmenstrual migraine attacks, making comparisons both between women and between the two kinds of attacks for the same women. The results indicated that menstrual migraine attacks were more severe, lasted longer and were more prone to relapse compared with nonmenstrual attacks. Most of the difference could also be seen in those women who got both menstrual and nonmenstrual attacks – suggesting that the difference lay in the type of migraine attack rather than differences between the women who have menstrual migraine and those who have nonmenstrual migraine.
This suggests a need to further study menstrual migraine in its own right as it can differ from nonmenstrual migraine. Maybe our current study of the genetics of menstrual migraine may shed some light on it – although this study is still in the early stages and no results are expected for a few years.

Heather Sim
Chief Executive

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr Nat Blau, who passed away on 26th June 2010 following a long battle with cancer. A co-founder of the Clinic, he worked tirelessly over the last 30 years and will be greatly missed by us all. Please join us in sharing our condolences with his wife, Jill and his children Justin, Adrian, and Rosie.

A full obituary is posted below and will be included in the next newsletter.

Joseph Norman Blau

Former consultant neurologist National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London; Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London; Northwick Park Hospital and Medical Research Centre Harrow, Middlesex; honorary consultant neurologist and medical director, the City of London Migraine Clinic (b 1928; q St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1952; MD FRCP FRCPath), d 26 June 2010.

Born in Berlin on 5^th October 1928 to Polish parents, Joseph Norman Blau (“Nat”) initially escaped the Nazis with a move to Poland in 1938. He was on the last boat to England before the invasion of Poland. On reaching London, he was evacuated to the country. His parents and sister were captured and shot by a Nazi firing squad in 1942. His determination and intelligence was apparent throughout his schooling and he secured a place at St Bartholomew’s Hospital medical school as an Open Science Scholar. After house jobs, he worked his National Service first as Lieutenant and then Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, including a year at Army Head Injuries Hospital. A Nuffield Medical Scholarship took him to Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, where he undertook research on the thymus gland. Back in London, an MRC grant enabled him to continue research on Hassall’s corpuscles at Guy’s Hospital, gaining his MD while also working as a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases.

In his clinical career, he trained in neurology as registrar, and later senior registrar to Lord Brain. During this time he met Dr Marcia Wilkinson with whom he shared a common personal affliction with migraine.  In 1980, she invited Nat to join her in opening the City of London Migraine Clinic, a registered medical charity. He volunteered to work a day a week as a consultant neurologist at the clinic until ill health forced him to retire just six months before his death. A driving force behind the fundraising – an increasingly difficult task over recent times – he wrote personal letters to heads of City organisations highlighting disability from migraine and requesting donations to the charity. More often than not, he received a personal reply accompanied by a cheque. 

His first paper on migraine was published in 1955. He went on to publish over 100 papers in scientific journals as well as numerous book chapters, a highly respected textbook on migraine and a book for the lay reader. He was a popular and eloquent speaker, with invitations from all parts of the globe. He talked to people, rather than at them, always requesting a tie microphone so that he could wander among the group and question unsuspecting members of the audience. No lecture was ever the same and all were remembered. He was active in the lay organisation Migraine Action (formerly the British Migraine Association), often talking at their AGM, and was their honorary medical advisor from 1980 to 2007.  He served on Council of the neurological section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Anglo-Dutch Migraine Association. Between 1994 and 1996 he was Chairman of the British Association for the Study of Headache.

He used his clinical acumen to further his research, focusing on the patient’s symptoms to help him to understand the pathophysiology. A popular quote of his was “Listen to the patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.”  He would not be swayed by popular medical hypotheses. At a time when animal models for migraine were popular, he stood firm in his belief that we must look to the patient for the answers. The result was seminal papers on migraine precipitants, the phases of migraine attacks and behaviour during cluster headache. He also identified three new headaches.   A deep thinker, he loved to discuss all aspects of migraine including historical and philosophical aspects. Faced with a comment or response with which he disagreed, he would raise his untamed eyebrows and a long pause would be followed by one of “Blau’s Laws” – all were peppered with humour but each held a profound truth. Favourites included: “Epidemiology is paralysis by analysis”; ”Better to have bad ideas than no ideas”; “Treat the man not the scan”; and “Decisive hesitation is better than hesitative decision.” He eschewed anything that could create a barrier between doctor and patient. This meant that the patient’s chair was placed beside the desk, years before this became the standard recommendation. Computers were equally seen as an unnecessary distraction during a consultation, although he embraced their use for his writing.

From an early age, he had been taught to consider Judaism to be a questioning religion. He believed that if you can question God, you can question anything. No research escaped critical review, resulting in stimulating debate. Also a writer, he spent many hours in the Royal Society of Medicine’s library and was a member of the Society of Authors. At home, he enjoyed smoking his pipe while he wrote.  His other love was music, which he combined with medicine by playing the cello in the London Medical Orchestra and serving as honorary medical advisor to the British Association for Music Therapy.

He treated and improved the lives of thousands of patients suffering from migraine, cluster headache, and other debilitating headaches. He taught countless medical students and doctors, encouraging doctors training at the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery to sit in on his clinics. His questioning approach was polarising but all admired him for the thorough training that they received. Despite the significant impact he made in the field of headache, he was always modest and unassuming.

After a long battle with prostate cancer he is survived by his wife, Jill; three children; and four grandchildren.

Anne MacGregor
The City of London Migraine Clinic

 
If you are a graduate looking for your first job or looking for a change of direction into the charitable sector we have got the opportunities for you to build on your existing skill set and gain new ones. Our internship offer a fantastic opportunity to get involved with a small dynamic charity. The City of London Migraine Clinic has been operating for 30 years and has a reputation for clinical and research excellence. The Clinic is half way through an ambitious transformation programme to bring it close to being self-sustaining.

In order to achieve this we need to:

 - improve our ability to raise funds
 - develop partnerships with both the private and public sectors
 - improve the quality of care for people who suffer from severe headaches through our provision of education to the health care profession
 - improve our organisation of the clinic
 - diversify our research activities

We are looking for a high calibre individual, who would really value and make the most of the opportunity to work for a supportive organisation where their ideas, energy and enthusiasm would be valued. The role would be extremely varied ranging from fundraising & education events administration, to clinic administration and give plenty of opportunities for innovation. You must be IT literate, enjoy writing, hardworking, committed and enthusiastic.

Your reward would be enormous satisfaction as you see the Clinic moving towards its goal whilst continuing to provide an axcellent service to its patients. You will receive an interesting mixture of experiences that would provide grounding for future roles in fundraising, educational event management, charity administration, and clinic administration.

This is a voluntary position; we pay a basic allowance to cover travel & any agreed out-of-pocket expenses.

Closing date for applications: 12^th July

If you are interested please email a copy of your CV and a covering letter to heather.sim@migraineclinic.org.uk. If you have any queries please contact Nanna Sandberg on 00 7251 3322.

 
Tomorrow, Wednesday 5th May, our Clinical Research Director Dr Anne MacGregor and one of our patients, Kate Wicks, will be on BBC4’s Women’s Hour talking about menstrual migraine. The programme is broadcast between 10am and 11am and will then be available on the BBC website for another week.

If you would be willing to talk to the media about your experience of headaches and the Clinic then please contact us on info@migraineclinic.org.uk. It will always be up to you whether you participate and what kind of media you would be willling to talk to.

By virtue of hormones, women are much more troubled by headaches and migraine than men. As a world renowned centre of excellence on hormones and migraine we are arranging an information day on hormonal headaches affecting women. More than half of all women who have migraine notice a link to their period, but how does that affect how you treat it? How do you deal with menstrual migraines, migraine attacks during pregnancy and whilst breastfeeding or during the menopause?  These are some of the topics that will be covered on the day.

We will also provide lunch and snacks throughout the day. To cover the costs of this day we are charging £25, including the refreshments. For details of the speakers and the registration form please see this leaflet.

Programme:

9.30 Welcome & Coffee

10.00 ‘What’s the link between hormones and headaches – from puberty to menopause’

11.00 Medication overuse headache

12.00 Lunch break

13.00 Headaches in pregnancy

14.00 The Pill for migraine?

15.00 Roundup and tea & coffee

The City of London Migraine Clinic – a registered medical charity founded in 1980 – provides access to a team of doctors with a specialist interest in the management of migraine and other headaches. We offer outpatient appointments to all patients from the UK and abroad by prior arrangement. We are the only independent migraine charity who provides treatment for primary headaches. We receive no government funding, but work with PCTs and hospitals to help reduce waiting times and improve care for headache sufferers. The feedback we receive speaks for itself, with 90% of patients stating the service they receive from us is ‘excellent.’

Research into the causes of migraine and other headaches is also undertaken. Standard treatments for migraine as defined by the International Headache Society have resulted from our studies. Our findings are fundamental to the advice given by the NHS, various migraine charities and the British Association for the Study into Headaches. We continue to study drug and non-drug treatments for migraine at the Clinic in peer reviewed clinical trials. Patients may be given the opportunity to try new treatments in a clinical study. We ask our patients to consider taking part in current or future trials, but there is no obligation and the care we provide is not affected in any way.

30th Birthday
Information Day on Hormonal Headaches
Doctors’ events
Donations
Have you got a philanthropic employer? 
Research
Migraine Heroes Healthcare Awards 2010
Parliamentary report on headache disorders
New newsletter system – feedback and suggestions!

30th Birthday

We are celebrating our 30th Birthday.  The Clinic was set up by Dr Nat Blau and Dr Marcia Wilkinson in 1980 and although much has changed since then, the building and aims of the Clinic haven’t changed.  For our 30th anniversary year we have a number of things planned but we would like to involve as many of you as possible; so if you have any ideas of how you would like to celebrate our birthday, please do let us know!

Information Day on Hormonal Headaches for the Public

We are a world renowned centre of excellence on hormones and migraine.  On 1st July 2010 we have arranged an information day on hormonal headaches. More than half of all women who have migraine notice a link to their period, but how does that affect how you treat it? How do you deal with menstrual migraines, migraine attacks during pregnancy and whilst breastfeeding or during the menopause?  These are some of the topics that will be covered on the day.

We will also provide lunch and snacks throughout the day. To cover the costs of this day we are charging £25, including the refreshments.

Provisional programme:

9.30 Welcome & Coffee

10.00 ‘What’s the link between hormones and headaches – from puberty to menopause’

11.00 Medication overuse headache

12.00 Lunch break

13.00 Headaches in pregnancy

14.00 The Pill for migraine?

15.00 Roundup and tea & coffee

The Clinic is internationally known for its research, much of which has focused on hormones and migraine and we wish to spread the knowledge we have to people affected. We also want to further our own knowledge and current research includes a study on genetics and menstrual migraine. If you have menstrual migraine please contact our Clinical Research Sister Alison Frith via email on research@migraineclinic.org.uk or on 020 7251 8094 to find out about our current and forthcoming studies.

Doctors’ events

As in previous years we are running a number of events for medical professionals this year. We are trying to circulate the information as widely as possible and so if you know anyone that might be interested in our events please let us know and we can send them a flyer.  Maybe you could drop a few off at your GP surgery?  The flyers can be found on our website.

We have the flyer in both electronic and paper format and can send you copies of either version. This spring/summer we have 2 full-day symposiums planned, each costing £125. These are suitable for healthcare professionals.  The symposia are based in London, providing easy access to healthcare professionals from around the UK.

We will be arranging a general Headache Symposium on the 27th May that aims to cover as much ground as possible in one day. There will be a number of speaker including Dr Anne MacGregor and topics range from making a diagnosis, when to investigate and cluster headaches.

On the 10th June we are holding a Hormonal Headaches symposium. Speakers confirmed are Dr Anne MacGregor and Prof. John Guillebaud (co-authors of the book ‘The Pill’). Topics includes the link between hormones and migraine, headaches in pregnancy and taking the Pill for migraine.

Our evening series of Masterclasses will also be returning in September.

Donations 

A big thank you to all of you who have helped the Clinic with donations!

Since last spring the average patient donation has increased by more than a third. This has been even more appreciated considering the current economic climate.  Whilst we are extremely grateful for this increase in the average donation it is still considerably below the cost of the service.  So we will continue to inform patients of our true costs, and continue pursuing new partnerships to help offset the financial difference.

Have you got a philanthropic employer?   

In a past newsletter we mentioned that some organisations match fund donations made to charities.  We are now pleased in inform you that one of the large banks, Credit Suisse have a scheme ‘Employee Participation Grants’.  This is to recognise and support the individual volunteering (of 8 hours or more) and fundraising efforts (raised £500 or more one year) of employees in a personal capacity outside of the bank.  The award is £500 per employee per calendar year for their chosen charity. 

Some of you may work for other employers with similar schemes from which we might benefit.  We would be extremely grateful and would offer any adminstratvie support required to submit the application.

Research 

We are currently doing a study on genentics and menstual migraine – you may have seen posters looking for women who have menstrual migraine.  Along with these volunteers we also need some volunteers for our control group – this means that they would complete a questionaire and provide us with a sample of saliva.

Control group volunteers must not have migraine or a family history of migraine. They also need to be women between the ages of 18 and 65. To gather the amount of samples we need we used other events to enable us to reach more people (who don’t have migraine). Ideally a stand in a large office would allow us to get a large amount of samples in a shorter time than relying on friends of patients. If you, or anyone you know, might be able to help us arrange something like this please do not hesitate to contact our Clinical Research Sister Alison Frith via email on research@migraineclinic.org.uk or on 020 7251 8094.  

Migraine Heroes Healthcare Awards 2010

Our Research Sister, Alison Frith won the category Best Healthcare Professional in 2008.  Do you have a very supportive employer, or maybe a friend or family member who has helped you or someone you know with their migraine?  New for this year is the category of ‘Best Clinic’  We very much encourage you to nominate people and organisations that have helped and supported those suffering with migraine for Migraine Action’s annual awards. There are 8 categories and nominations are open until the 19th June, the forms for which can be found at www.migraine.org.uk/heroes, or paper versions from the clinic.

Since last spring the average patient donation has increased by more than a third. This has been even more appreciated considering the current economic climate.  Whilst we are extremely grateful for this increase in the average donation it is still considerably below the cost of the service.  So we will continue to inform patients of our true costs, and continue pursuing new partnerships to help offset the financial difference.

The categories are as follows:

- Best Carer

- Best Clinic

- Best in Complementary Medicine

- Best Employer

- Best GP

- Best Healthcare Professional

- Young Migraineur Star Award

- Young Migrauneur Special Award

So if you know of anyone who has made a difference to the life of one or more migraine sufferers please take the time to let them know they are appreciated.

Parliamentary Report on Headache Disorders

This past Tuesday, the 16th March, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Headache Disorders published a report called Headache Disorders – nor respected, not resourced . This report is based on the evidence presented to the Group over the past two years. The report covers a number of topics, including the economic costs of migraine to the UK, improving management in primary care and company research. One of the chapters of the report, on migraine in women, was written by our Clinical Research Director Dr Anne MacGregor who also held a small presentation at the launch of the report.

In the words of the APPG chairman Stephen O’Brien MP “I believe that the thrust of this report should have real impact in urging policy- and decision-makers to turn their attention to this pressing, widespread issue which is capable of solutions that will increase the wellbeing of our constituents and fellow citizens.”

Hopefully this report can help in highlighting the impact of headaches on so many people and provide a government incentive to take headaches more seriously.

New newsletter system – feedback and suggestions! 

Our December newsletter was the first to be sent using our new newsletter email system. The new system allows us to have the header and footer with our logo and details and also makes it easier to put together and send.  As the format has changed we would like to know what you would like to see in the upcoming newsletters. Do you want to hear more about the fundraising we do, or maybe get updates on the research? Would a news summary of headache news from around the would be of interest?

We would also like to know how it looks to you: can you see the logo, did it end up among your junk mail or anything else that you would like to comment on?

Any suggestions and ideas are warmly received!

Heather Sim
Chief Executive

Office Internship
Do you want to gain unrivalled experience with the only national, independent migraine charity that treats and researches to improve the treatment of migraine and cluster headache?

If you are a graduate with an enthusiastic ‘can do’ attitude to challenges this is a unique opportunity to work in a small organisation with an international reputation for a six month placement. The work will include fundraising, events and administration. The position is unpaid but travel expenses will be reimbursed.

For further details contact Heather Sim on 020 7251 3322 and if you wish to apply please send a CV and covering letter to info[at]migraineclinic.org.uk.

Sessional doctor
Due to increasing patient numbers, the Clinic is looking to recruit an additional doctor to our team. We are looking for a doctor to work for a minimum of 3 sessions a week, of which at least one will be on Tuesdays.

We welcome doctors with wither a GP or neurology background who have a whole patient approach to the delivery of patient care. An interest in migraine and other primary headaches is expected.

The salary for this role is in accordance with an NHS Point 1 salary for a Specialty Doctor, i.e. £3,879.50 per annum incl London weighting. 

For further details see the job advert.

Job specification

Background information

If you wish to apply, please email the following to heather.sim[at]migraineclinic.org.uk
 
1. A covering letter, briefly stating why you would like this post 
2. A copy of your CV 
3. Names and contact details of 2 referees.

Headache Symposium 27th May 2010

Hormonal Headache Symposium 10th June 2010

The City of London Migraine Clinic is proud to present these new full day symposia. You and your colleagues are warmly invited to attend; programmes and application forms are available as leaflets to download.
Following the success of our popular 2009 GP Masterclass lecture series and an abundance of requests for similar events, all the areas you need to know to confidently manage headaches in your practice will be covered. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from renowned specialists and you will receive a certificate of attendance for your personal development plan.

The Headache Symposium ( 27th May 2010)
Headache Symposium leaflet

Provides a practical grounding in the diagnosis and management of primary headaches including when to investigate and when to refer to a specialist. The Medical Director of the City of London Migraine Clinic, Dr Anne MacGregor will be joined by Consultant Neurologist and Headache Specialist from the Barts and the London Trust, Dr Giles Elrington for a lively and topical review of all the current issues.

The Hormonal Headache Symposium (10th June 2010)
Hormonal Headache Symposium leaflet

Presents the management of primary hormonal headaches. Can women with migraine take the pill or HRT? Answers to this and everything you need to know about headaches and the Pill, menstrual migraine, headaches during pregnancy and the menopause will be covered. Dr Anne MacGregor whose research has identified menstrual migraine will be joined by Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at University College London, John Guillebaud. Join these two international experts who are the co-authors of “The Pill and Other Forms of Hormonal Contraception” on what promises to be a fascinating day.

We look forward to receiving your application form. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the City of London Migraine Clinic on 020 7251 3322 or via email on admin@migraineclinic.org.uk