About the network
The Eastern Paediatric Epilepsy Network (EPEN) brings together healthcare professionals who care for children and young people with epilepsy across the East of England.
Who we are
Our members include paediatricians with an interest in epilepsy, in hospital and community settings, as well as paediatric neurologists, epilepsy specialist nurses, neurophysiologists, clinical psychologists and resident doctors.
EPEN is one of the regional networks that make up OPEN UK, the Organisation of Paediatric Epilepsy Networks in the UK.
Our hospitals
Our members work in paediatric services at 17 hospitals across the East of England:
- Addenbrooke’s Hospital
- Basildon University Hospital
- Bedford Hospital
- Broomfield Hospital
- Colchester Hospital
- Hinchingbrooke Hospital
- Ipswich Hospital
- James Paget University Hospital
- Lister Hospital
- Luton & Dunstable University Hospital
- New Queen Elizabeth II Hospital
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- Peterborough City Hospital
- Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn
- Southend University Hospital
- West Suffolk Hospital
Map of our network hospitals
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Outline © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries
Our aims
- Achieve high-quality care for all children and young people with epilepsy across the region.
- Develop care pathways and guidelines enabling members to deliver standardised care.
- Share knowledge and experience of paediatric epilepsy.
- Provide peer review of complex cases.
- Promote educational activities for members.
- Promote research and governance in paediatric epilepsy across the region.
Network meetings
The network meets three times a year at Girton College, Cambridge, to discuss clinical and network business, share learning and review complex cases. Meeting papers and minutes are available to members in our Futures workspace.
NEXT NETWORK MEETING
11 February 2027
Are you an EPEN member? Papers, minutes and working groups are in our members’ workspace.
Network officers
Chair
Bina Mukhtyar
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Vice chair
Jen Vincent
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Treasurer
James Robinson
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Webmaster
Peter Rose
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Come to a meeting
Any healthcare professional involved in the care of children and young people with epilepsy in the East of England is welcome to attend our meetings. There’s no need to book or be invited: just come along.
At the meeting, scan the QR code to register your attendance. You’ll be emailed a certificate of attendance for your CPD records, and you can ask to join the network. Members are invited to our Futures workspace, where we share meeting papers and minutes and our working groups develop guidelines. Find out more on the For professionals page.
Image credits
Photos have been cropped and resized for this website.
- Capsules (Medicine leaflets A to Z): photo by Jiří Suchý on Unsplash, Unsplash License.
- Doctors and nurses in a hospital corridor (For professionals): photo by Luis Melendez on Unsplash, Unsplash License.
- Family walking in autumn woods (For families): photo by Filip Rankovic Grobgaard on Unsplash, Unsplash License.
- Girton College, Cambridge, 1890s (Home and About): photochrom by the Detroit Publishing Company, restored by Adam Cuerden. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
- Map outline on About: © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries.