The New Zealand nuclear veteran and families study, exploring the options to assess heritable health outcomes.

Aims: To describe health conditions in New Zealand nuclear veterans and their offspring, and examine the utility of tests to assess their heritability.

Method: An online survey, open to all veterans and offspring, with questions on health conditions, the GHQ12 to measure psychological distress, the Euroquol-5D visual analogue scale (EQ5D VAS) to measure health state, and free text items on veteran support.

Results: Eighty-three responses (56%) were from veterans, 65 (44%) from offspring.

A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of a prompt and reminder card in the care of people with epilepsy.

Background: The quality of epilepsy care has often been noted to be poor and fragmentary. Most people with epilepsy are solely under the care of their general practitioner (GP). Many patients report medication side-effects and poor seizure control.