Next week sees Headway, the UK brain injury support charity, launch their Action for Brain Injury Week, which this year focuses upon the information given out by hospitals to patients seen in casualty but discharged with a suspected "minor" head injury.
I'm sure that up and down the country, thousands of patients are seen in busy A+E units every week, are given the right advice and recover without complications after treatment. It's worth remembering that in many units hard working staff do the best they can with the resources that they have, and not every complication can be foreseen.
But the beauty and simplicity of Headway's campaign is the simple ask: just use Headway's well presented and carefully researched advice sheet on minor head injury, and give these out to patients before they exit the door. This will put an end to the inconsistent and frankly sometimes inadequate fact sheets used in some hospitals, and at the same time lets people know about the existence and work of Headway. What's wrong with that?
Let's just hope someone is listening!