Resources for Professionals

This toolkit aims to help those shaping services and treatments for adult people with social care needs, and their carers, to make informed decisions about which services and treatments to provide and how much they cost.

The University of Plymouth telerehab toolkit is designed to support health and social care practitioners in the remote assessment and management of people with movement impairment and physical disability, including people recovering from Coronavirus (COVID-19).

This occupational therapy (OT) referral menu highlights common day to day concerns of people living with Parkinson’s and can be used when referring them to occupational therapy. It is designed to raise awareness, support higher quality referral data and increase rates of access to occupational therapists for people with Parkinson’s.

Developed by The British Psychological Society, in partnership with Lancaster University, this evidence-based guidance outlines evidence-based recommendations for professionals providing psychological support to individuals living with Parkinson's.

The KPPQ is a patient-based questionnaire allowing people with Parkinson's to self-rate the type and severity of pain they are experiencing.

The King's Parkinson's Pain Scale evaluates the type and intensity of pain in people with Parkinson's.

A map of the Parkinson's UK Excellence Network, showing the leads of each of the 22 Local Parkinson's UK Excellence Network groups and the Excellence Network Clinical Leads.

Information and resources for professionals on time critical medication for Parkinson's, including the Get It on Time campaign and resources.

This first edition standards of practice and competency framework outlines the competencies required by specialist nurses and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) working in the field of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).

The PD-CFRS (Kulisevsky et al. 2013) is a short (5 minutes) Parkinson's specific questionnaire, used to explore a wide range of functional aspects suspected to be sensible to cognitive impairment in Parkinson's. It is intended for use by trained health professionals only.