Call for Fair Care for Parkinson's at party conferences

21 September 2009

The Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) is taking the Fair Care for Parkinson's campaign messages to the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Party conferences this year, lobbying for equal access to health and social services for everyone affected by Parkinson's.

Fringe events

We are holding a fringe event at each party conference called 'Whitehall to the town hall - no longer a national health service?'

The fringe events are being hosted in partnership with the British Dental Association, the Association of British Healthcare Industries and Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

These events are an opportunity for the organisations to tell the Government how consistently high-quality care can be achieved, no matter where people live.

Meetings with MPs and spokespeople

Parkinson's Disease Society representatives will hold a number of one-to-one meetings with key MPs and frontbench spokespeople on the issues affecting people with Parkinson's.

These include Ann Keen MP (pictured right), Under Secretary of State for Health Services, and Norman Lamb MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Health.

Big Care Reception

The Parkinson's Disease Society is also part of a coalition of 20 organisations hosting the Big Care reception at the Labour Party Conference, in response to the Government's Big Care Debate. We are calling for action to improve social care.

We will also have an opportunity to attend other events, raising the profile of the Society and talking with health teams from each political party about issues affecting people with Parkinson's.

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