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Helen Matthews, Rory Cellan-Jones, Sir Nicholas Mostyn, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mike Lacey-Solymar and Juliet Tizzard stand outside 10 Downing Street with the Parky Charter petition

Parky Charter hits over 100,000 signatures

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Improving access to mental health services for people with Parkinson's

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MPs vote to cut Universal Credit

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Local campaigns update

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It's not just MPs who have been busy campaigning. Our local campaigners have been hard at work too. Here are some highlights of our work in England since the start of 2024.

Results from major study of speech and language therapy for Parkinson’s published

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The results found that Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT LOUD) is more effective than NHS speech and language therapy.

Parkinson’s UK invests in clinical trial of a potential treatment that could protect brain cells

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We're providing £1.24m through our Virtual Biotech programme to help test a potential treatment called MTX325 in people with Parkinson’s.

Parkinson's UK invests in first trial of pioneering treatment in people with Parkinson’s

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We're providing £1.55m through our Virtual Biotech programme to carry out the first clinical trials to see if HER-096 is safe for people with Parkinson’s and to start exploring its potential benefits.
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£100,000 awarded for research looking at new drug target for Parkinson’s

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Parkinson's UK is funding researchers to develop a potential set of drugs against a new target for people with Parkinson's.
Image credit: Anthony Coleman

Soundscape premiere brings together the young onset Parkinson’s community

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‘I Hear You’, a soundscape of the unheard world of young onset Parkinson’s supported by Parkinson’s UK, was premiered at Bloomsbury Studio, London on Tuesday 11 June. 
test samples in tubes

Blood test shows promise for identifying Parkinson’s before movement symptoms

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Research co-funded by Parkinson’s UK finds a new way to potentially improve diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s. 

Parkinson’s UK Scotland supports legal right to palliative care under the right terms

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We’ve supported the principle that everyone in Scotland who needs it should have a legal right to palliative care. However, the new law would need additional funding and to be on the right terms for people with Parkinson’s and their families.

Parkinson's UK invests in development of potential new drugs to protect brain cells using mitochondria

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We're providing £1.6m through our Virtual Biotech programme to develop a potential new treatment targeting mitochondria to protect brain cells in Parkinson's patients.
Photo by Aurore Delsoir Photography

Prize for work ensuring patient voice is included in research

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A partnership involving Parkinson’s UK has been recognised at the Made with Patients awards, organised by Patient Focused Medicines Development.