The patient who transformed motor neurone disease care.

Abstract

In March 2015, Nursing Standard published a feature about a remarkable young man called Gordon Aikman. He had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) the previous year, aged 29, while working as director of research for the Better Together campaign, ahead of the Scottish independence referendum. The Scot, pictured, knew the prognosis wasn't good, and was determined to make the most of the time he had left.