Policy Lab workshop

Our colleagues were in London yesterday to participate at a Policy Lab workshop held at The Policy Institute at King’s College London. On the agenda was the project “Real World Testing and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Subcutaneous EEG” (REAL-ASE) – a multicentre, observational cohort study which aims to investigate the clinical value and the health economics of the ultra long-term, subcutaneous EEG monitoring solution from UNEEG medical. Over three years, 33 people with drug resistant epilepsy will get a subcutaneous implant inserted for 6 months to detect seizures.

The main question at the workshop was “What is needed for the current trial to demonstrate that the new device is valuable, feasible, and acceptable to adopt?” Participants at the workshop included among others representatives from academia, practitioners, and people with epilepsy who are brought together to discuss how to support getting the ultra long-term, subcutaneous EEG monitoring solution into practice.

The REAL-ASE study has been made possible by a £1.8 million grant in the i4i Challenge Awards Call from the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) in the UK. The study is a joint collaboration between King's College London and UNEEG medical with Prof. Mark Richardson and Dr. Jonas Duun-Henriksen being co-lead investigators.

The Policy Institute at King’s College London aims to bridge the gap between research, policy and practice using a variety of activity such as the Policy Lab workshop which is a collaborate workshop bringing various stakeholders together to assess evidence, understand barriers and constraints to change and to develop new ideas and practical approaches to improve outcomes.