Resources for Professionals

This resource describes how NHS Ayrshire & Arran hospitals improved their rates for administering patients' Parkinson's medications on time. The team shares how using electronic prescribing has played a vital role in improving patient care and safety, and offers tips on how other hospitals might be able to replicate their successful e-prescribing system.

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) has developed a position statement, paper, and resources to support dysphagia practitioners to understand the potential benefits and potential burdens associated with thickened fluids.

This guidance presents evidence-based recommendations and discussion on several devices for remote monitoring of Parkinson's: Kinesia 360, KinesiaU, PDMonitor, Personal KinetiGraph and STAT-ON.

This short video, from the National Institute for Health Research, explains how research governance ensures that research is safe and that researchers are following all the rules that they should. 

A guide to support hospital pharmacy staff in implementing time critical Parkinson’s medication management.

A guide to support the nurse in charge and ward staff in implementing time critical Parkinson’s medication management.

A guide to support the nurse in charge and ward staff in implementing time critical Parkinson’s medication management.

A factsheet of advice on getting people with Parkinson’s their medication on time when they’re being transported to hospital.

These dashboards display data from the 2022 UK Parkinson's Audit. They can be filtered by audit question, clinical specialty, and geographically by Parkinson's UK Excellence Network regions. 

Guidance on how to manage patients with Parkinson's in an emergency situation. Professionals who don’t see people with Parkinson's day-to-day may find this especially useful.