Parkinson's Disease
(asked on 30th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 8th July 2015
This information is not collected. However, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance Parkinson’s disease: Diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care, published in 2006, estimates that Parkinson’s affects 100–180 people per 100,000 of the population and has an annual incidence of 4–20 per 100,000.