News for professionals

12 May 2022 marks International Nurses Day with this year’s theme of: a voice to lead, invest in nursing, and respect rights to secure global health.

To celebrate and pay tribute, Emma Edwards, Parkinson’s Nurse Specialist and Suicide Awareness Trainer at Livewell Southwest, shares her experience of providing care to people with Parkinson’s.

Now that in-person conferences for professionals are in full swing again, the Excellence Network will be back on the road with speakers and exhibition stands this summer.

Announcement that the Excellence Network has received an additional £2 million investment from Parkinson’s UK to be used over the next 3 years on improving Parkinson’s services and access to allied health professionals for people with Parkinson’s across the UK.

Dr Donald Grosset will be stepping down from his role as Clinical Director of the Excellence Network at the end of May.

An introduction to our UK-wide Bone Health Improvement project and an overview of the early results so far.

As 2021 draws to a close, Rowan Wathes, Associate Director of the UK Parkinson's Excellence Network, reflects on everything we've achieved together across the Excellence Network this year.

Here are the winners and highly commended services of the 2021 Excellence Network Awards. Find out more, and what made them worthy of their accolades.

The Excellence Network Awards celebrate outstanding health and social care services for people with Parkinson’s. Find out which teams and services have made it through the shortlist as finalists in the 2021 Excellence Network Awards.

Over the last few months, a total of 150 healthcare professionals came together virtually to attend a series of Excellence Network regional meetings.

Clodagh Daly, Speech and Language Therapist at Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, shares her experience of managing remote consultations during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.