MND / ALS

The document, delivered to 10 Downing Street, urges the government to give people with a terminal illness easier and quicker access to the benefits they are entitled to. Currently, unless a medical professional signs a form saying the person has six months or less to live they are forced through a laborious process of form-filling, interviews and assessments. David Setters, who is living with MND and consultant neurologist Dr Nik Sharma were among those who delivered the petition; as was Downton Abbey actor Jim Carter.

The search for a motor neurone disease cure has uncovered a way of potentially slowing the disease by boosting energy production in the central nervous system.