Around 80% of classified disabilities in the UK are ‘hidden’. And Epilepsy Action is in real need of our help in 2025.

• A new person is diagnosed with epilepsy every 18 minutes.

• 1,000 people die from their epilepsy every year and most people do not know that epilepsy can be fatal.

• Millions of seizures happen every day. The reason the general public do not see that many of them is because people with epilepsy are scared to leave their homes. Shockingly, 2 in 3 people do not know how to do seizure first aid.

• Only 34% of working age adults with epilepsy are in work. 42% of employers would not give people with epilepsy a job or a promotion at work even though they know that this is discrimination.

• We have the second worst epilepsy healthcare provision in Europe. We have 25% of the nurses and neurologists of France and Germany.

• 40% of people with epilepsy have suicidal thoughts. People with epilepsy are three times more likely to have depression than the wider UK population.

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