Our Vision
The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE) wants to see better futures for young lives with epilepsy by providing high quality education, assessment, training and support services based on our Surrey campus and by advocating better health, education and support services for the 60,000 children with epilepsy throughout the UK.
The NCYPE has established Europe's first professorial paediatrician post - The Prince of Wales's Chair of Childhood Epilepsy – with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and the Institute of Child Health.
At the heart of the NCYPE is honesty, integrity, trust and respect which underpin all of the organisation’s multidisciplinary and student centred services. This includes high quality and multidisciplinary services incorporating education, treatment, assessment, rehabilitation, outreach and care for young people from across the UK.
Our strategic objectives for 2008-13 in summary are:
- Maintain the current level of activity within St Piers School and Children’s Services
- Obtain a grade of ‘Good’ or better in the 2010 OFSTED inspection of the College, and obtain a grade of ‘Outstanding’ in the 2013 inspection.
- Grow the number of College Students
- Refurbish/replace all College Residential Accommodation and reconfigure the teaching accommodation by September 2011 and start the building of a new School by 2013.
- Devise, by 1st October 2008, and implement a fully developed plan for the Health and Assessment services in collaboration with GOSH and the ICH, so as to maximise the opportunities arising from the new Medical, Assessment and Research Centre.
- Reposition the NCYPE as the authoritative national voice of childhood epilepsy by delivering a high quality information and education service and by leading a campaign to improve education and other services for all children with epilepsy
- Continuing to invest in the development of the estate and services