Parkinsons UK: time critical medication resources for health professionals

Summary

The Parkinson’s Excellence Network have released a series of resources to support UK healthcare professionals in hospitals to improve the delivery of time critical medication for people with Parkinson’s.

Content

• Parkinson's UK time critical medication dashboard. The new dashboard estimates the benefits of improving time critical medication management for people with Parkinson's in hospitals in England, Scotland and Wales. The dashboard estimates the direct cost for hospitals and impact on patient outcomes of delayed or missed medication doses. 
• Audit and awareness: how staff at Hexham General Hospital improved the delivery of time critical medication. This case study details how a staff nurse's dissertation led to an increase in Parkinson's medication delivered on time on a ward at Hexham General Hospital.
• Webinar: Driving improvement on time critical Parkinson's medication. In February our fully subscribed webinar included a session on practical benchmarking against the 10 recommendations. Watch the webinar recording and read the Q&A document now. 
• Time critical medication patients' stories: in their own words. In these new short films, people with Parkinson’s share their experiences of receiving their Parkinson's medication in hospital and how this impacted on their health and well being. These films have been developed to raise awareness and support education and training of health professionals. 

Read more in the latest time critical medication blog by former nurse Patsy Cotton.

Access all of the time critical medication resources.