David Lewis Centre

David Lewis (also known as the 'David Lewis National Epilepsy Centre', David Lewis School and 'The David Lewis Centre' is a health foundation based in Little Warford, Cheshire. It provides residential accommodation, education and health services to people with epilepsy, autism learning and physical disabilities.^[1]

It is a registered charity under English law and in 2007–8 had a gross income of over £27 million, the majority of which comes from local authorities. David Lewis employs over 800 staff.^[2]

It was founded in 1893 by the estate, and to continue the work, of the Victorian philanthropist David Lewis (1823–1885) of Liverpool who had founded the Lewis's retail stores.

References

↑ "The David Lewis Centre". Retrieved 2008-04-20.
↑ Charity Commission. David Lewis Centre, registered charity no. 1000392.

External links

Official website

Seizures and epilepsy (G40–G41, 345)

Basics

Treatments

Anticonvulsants
Electroencephalography (diagnosis method)
Epileptologist

Personal issues

Seizure types
Epilepsy types

Focal	Seizures Simple partial Complex partial Gelastic seizure Epilepsy Temporal lobe epilepsy Frontal lobe epilepsy Rolandic epilepsy Nocturnal epilepsy Panayiotopoulos syndrome

Generalised	Tonic-clonic Absence seizure Atonic seizure Automatism Benign familial neonatal epilepsy Lennox-Gastaut Doose syndrome West

Status epilepticus	Epilepsia partialis continua Complex partial status epilepticus

Myoclonic epilepsy	Progressive myoclonus epilepsies Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy Unverricht-Lundborg disease MERRF syndrome Lafora disease Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Non-epileptic seizures	Febrile seizure Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Related disorders

Epilepsy
organizations

Schools in Cheshire

Primary

Secondary

Cheshire East	All Hallows RC College Alsager School Brine Leas School Congleton High School Eaton Bank Academy The Fallibroome Academy Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School Knutsford Academy The Macclesfield Academy Malbank School Middlewich High School The Oaks Academy Poynton High School Ruskin High School St Thomas More RC High School Sandbach High School Sandbach School Shavington Academy Sir William Stanier Community School Tytherington School Wilmslow High School

Cheshire West & Chester	Bishop Heber High School The Bishops' Blue Coat CE High School Blacon High School Chester RC High School Christleton High School County High School Ellesmere Port RC High School Hartford High School Helsby High School Neston High School Queens Park High School St Nicholas RC High School Tarporley High School University of Chester Academy Northwich University CE Academy Upton-by-Chester High School Weaverham High School The Whitby High School The Winsford Academy

Halton	The Grange School, Runcorn The Heath School Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy Ormiston Chadwick Academy St Chad's RC & CE High School Saints Peter & Paul RC College Sandymoor School Wade Deacon High School

Warrington	Beamont Collegiate Academy Birchwood Community High School Bridgewater High School Cardinal Newman RC High School Culcheth High School Great Sankey High School Lymm High School Penketh High School St Gregory's RC High School Sir Thomas Boteler CE High School University Academy Warrington UTC Warrington

Independent

Special

Further
education
& sixth form
colleges

Former

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