Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the UK Parkinson's Excellence Network.

No discussions have taken place between the Ministers of the Department and the UK Parkinson’s Excellence Network.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published the guidance Parkinson's disease in over 20s: diagnosis and management in June 2006, available at:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg35

The guidance advises that people with Parkinson’s disease should have a comprehensive care plan agreed between the individual, their family and/or carers and specialist and secondary healthcare providers and that people with Parkinson’s disease should be offered an accessible point of contact with specialist services. This could be provided by a Parkinson's disease nurse specialist.