[Email in a dedicated headache clinic: experience gained over a five-year period].

Introduction: The use of email can facilitate communication between the different levels of an organisation. Our primary care physicians have had an email service in the dedicated headache clinic (DHC) since November 2009, and our aim is therefore to analyse the use of email over that five-year period.

Patients And Methods: Data concerning the emails sent up until October 2014 were collected prospectively.

[Referrals from primary care to a dedicated headache clinic: analysis of the first 1,000 patients].

Introduction: It is commonplace practice in dedicated clinics or headache units to deal with complex patients referred from general neurology clinics. In our centre, part of the schedule of the dedicated headache clinic (DHC) is reserved for patients referred from primary care (PC) in the form of one-stop clinics.

Aims: To analyse both the characteristics of the patients referred by PC to DHC and the suitability of the agreed referral criteria, and to compare them with the first visits due to headache in a general neurology clinic.