News for professionals

In this blog, we celebrate 75 years of the NHS and pay tribute to all the incredible health and care professionals working in NHS Parkinson's services. We also share some personal reflections from members of our Clinical Leadership Team on what the NHS means to them.

To mark and celebrate International Nurses Day 2023, we spoke to DBS nurse, Russell Mills about his role and why he'd recommend a career specialising in DBS or Parkinson's.

In this blog, Patsy Cotton, Parkinson's nurse and Excellence Network Clinical Lead, shares an update on the recent  work happening in the time critical medication programme.

Parkinson’s nurse Nick Bryden was recently awarded by the Parkinson's Academy for developing a new system to ensure that people with Parkinson’s get access to timely medication when in hospital.

The newly released findings of the 2022 UK Parkinson’s Audit show some positive trends in assessment of bone health but with challenges still to be tackled across practice areas and professions.

As we reach the end of 2022, we look back at what has made us proud to be part of the Parkinson’s Excellence Network and the difference we’ve made to people living Parkinson’s.

We are celebrating National Allied Health Professionals Day today to celebrate all the amazing work they do across the NHS to provide support for people with Parkinson’s.

While celebrating the 10th anniversary of Parkinson’s UK’s partnership with the National Garden Scheme, we talk to Jennifer, Parkinson’s nurse at Royal Preston Hospital.

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.

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.