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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

NHS to offer epilepsy patients new form of laser surgery

A brain scan of a person with epilepsy
A brain scan of a person with epilepsy. About 600,000 people in the UK have the condition. Photograph: Frank Baron/The Guardian

Up to 150 people a year with epilepsy will have a potentially life-changing new form of surgery on the part of their brain that is causing their seizures, in an NHS initiative.

NHS England is making available a “world-leading” fibre-optic laser beam surgery that would let epilepsy sufferers avoid having to undergo neurosurgery, which is much more invasive.

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