The results of an audit of the admission of epilepsy sufferers in a UK Dist
rict General Hospital are presented. The results strongly suggest that most
admissions were due to potentially mutable problems including poor complia
nce with medication rather than to difficult epilepsy per se. It is suggest
ed that consistent support of these patients, for example by an epilepsy nu
rse specialist, would have perhaps prevented many of these admissions. Care
of these patients in hospital failed to achieve standards set by various g
uidelines for epilepsy management.