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'Please, write to me' guidance: best practice example letters for patients with Parkinson's

These best practice example letters are provided as part of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges’ Please, write to me: writing outpatient clinic letters to patients guidance. This guidance encourages clinicians to write directly to patients.

Webinar: Driving improvements on time critical Parkinson's medication

A recording of the Parkinson's UK Excellence Network's time critical medication webinar from 26 February 2025.

World Parkinson's Day awareness guide for health and care professionals

This guide to World Parkinson's Day 2025 aims to inspire health and care professionals to create engaging awareness events in their workplaces and communities.

Unlock the value of timely medication: Parkinson's UK time critical medication dashboard

This tool allows health professionals, NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Boards, and Health Boards to estimate the benefits of improving time critical medication management for people with Parkinson's in hospitals.

Comprehensive Anxiety and Parkinson’s Scale (CAPS-54) and (CAPS-24)

The Comprehensive Anxiety and Parkinson’s Scale (Irving-Curran et al. 2024), is a comprehensive standardised psychometric scale of anxiety for people with Parkinson’s.

Audit and awareness - how staff at Hexham General Hospital improved the delivery of time critical medication: best practice case study

Service improvement projects that focus on a specific issue and hospital ward can create positive impact.

This case study details how a dissertation led to an increase from 68.9% to 85% in the delivery of Parkinson's medications on time, on a ward at Hexham General Hospital.

Self administration: a patient-centred approach to administering time critical Parkinson’s medication at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: best practice case study

Self administration can significantly improve in-patient experience and medication safety. This case study outlines how the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust has empowered patients by developing a robust self administration policy supported by staff training.

Time critical medication: 10 recommendations for your hospital

These recommendations for hospitals will enable NHS organisations to support timely, safe and appropriate medicine management for people with Parkinson's.

Benchmarking to improve the delivery of time critical medication at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust: best practice case study

This case study describes how South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust is benchmarking against the 10 recommendations for time critical medication to make sure that people with Parkinson’s get their medications on time, every time.

Case study: How pump priming can be used to support an Integrated Rapid Response Service

Read on to find out how Specialist Physiotherapist, Fiona Lindop and Specialist Occupational Therapist, Clare Johnson have put together the Parkinson’s Rapid Advice and Intervention Service (PRAIS) at the University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust.