About our Excellence Network
Read about the Excellence Network, our strategy and our Clinical Leadership Team.
We're transforming health and care services for people with Parkinson's across the UK.
We bring together and support health and care professionals to share best practice, provide resources, learning, and drive improvements to services for people with Parkinson’s and the people who love and care for them.
Excellence Network strategy: pushing for better health and care
Pushing for better health and care is the area of the Parkinson's UK strategy that our Excellence Network is working to fulfil through 3 key priorities.
Integrated multidisciplinary care: sufficient staff back up with appropriate learning
The Complete care for Parkinson's programme is delivering new specialist nurse and therapist posts, service improvement projects and support with data and evidence, and supercharged regional networks. Alongside an Access To Care campaign to help people with Parkinson's navigate the health system.
Read our vision for integrated multidisciplinary care (PDF, 275KB).
Time critical medication
Patients with Parkinson’s are at risk of significant harm if they don’t get their medication on time, every time. Yet just 42% of people with Parkinson’s say they always get their medication on time, every time, when they’re in hospital (2022 UK Parkinson’s Audit).
The Get It On Time campaign continues to influence health policy, and our Time critical medication programme is developing an ongoing series of service improvement resources and learning material to support hospitals with administering Parkinson's medication on time.
Explore our Time critical medication resources.
Access to treatments and medical technology
We believe all people with Parkinson’s should have access to the treatments they need no matter who they are and where they live. Health and care professionals understand the medical technologies that could help people manage their condition and these technologies are available through the NHS.
This element of the strategic work involves gathering evidence and developing education and resources for health professionals and people with Parkinson's, to achieve the vision.
Meet our Clinical Leadership Team
Meet the team, read how they got involved with Parkinson's, and why they stepped forward to take up a leadership role in our Network.