Resources for Professionals

Medication calculators are used by doctors, nurses and pharmacists who are looking after patients with Parkinson's who have been admitted to hospital and are unable to take their medications orally. This page provides up to date information on 2 Parkinson's-specific calculators: PDMedCalc and OPTIMAL.

Guidance to support doctors making decisions about clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) for adults who lack capacity in England and Wales.

This quality standard covers the management of Parkinson's in adults. It does not include treatment of atypical Parkinson's. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.

The rating scale allows clinicians to evaluate the level of dystonia experienced by people affected by Parkinson's.

This scale evaluates the involuntary movements that can be associated with long term treatment with dopaminergic medication.

This questionnaire assesses how often people with Parkinson's experience difficulties across 8 dimensions of daily living.

This rating scale enables health and social care professionals to quantify the level of sleep disruption in order to determine treatment.

This rating scale can be used to assess levels of fatigue and measure any changes that treatment or lifestyle changes may effect.

These data dashboards have been developed by the Parkinson's Excellence Network in partnership with Wilmington Healthcare. They provide a snapshot of hospital episode data trends and number of people with Parkinson's in different areas.

We worked with people with Parkinson's, expert physiotherapists and exercise professionals to produce a Parkinson's exercise framework.