Table 1: List of admitting diagnosis.

Underlying diagnosis of study cohort Numbers Preexisting diagnosis of primary generalised epilepsy 37 Preexisting diagnosis of localisation related epilepsy 60 Generalised status epilepticus 7 Nonepileptic seizures 11 Collapses 34 Antiepileptic medication-related toxicity 3 Significant past medical history of head injury 6 Known primary CNS tumours 8 Known CNS metastasis 6 History of stroke/TIA 8 Stroke presenting as seizures 2 Known history of learning disability 5 Dementia 5 HIV positive 2 Hepatitis B/C positive 10 Schizophrenia 1 Hyponatraemia 11 Sepsis with symptomatic seizure 1 Sepsis with rigors misidentified and referred as seizure 3 Post-operative seizures 3 Seizure after significant physical trauma 1