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  1. Content Article
    In my 15 years focusing on developing drink thickening solutions for dysphagia patients, the intersection of dysphagia management and patient safety has become increasingly apparent. Dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, presents not only as a significant health challenge but also as a critical patient safety issue. The condition's underdiagnosis, particularly in vulnerable populations, heightens the risk of severe complications, including choking, aspiration pneumonia, dehydration and the profound fear of choking that can lead to malnutrition.
  2. Content Article
    The prevalence of Parkinson’s disease, the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, is increasing worldwide. Characterised clinically by progressive asymmetric slowness of movement, rigidity, tremor, gait disturbance, and a wide range of non-motor symptoms, the aetiology of Parkinson’s disease is multifactorial, involving both genetic and environmental risk factors. Despite the growing public health burden, current treatment strategies are focused solely on symptom management—and disease-modifying treatments are urgently needed to help prevent development of the most disabling refractory symptoms, such as gait and balance difficulties, cognitive impairment and dementia, and speech and swallowing problems. In this three-paper Series, the authors address the current state of knowledge on the epidemiology of Parkinson’s disease, recent advances in our understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease, as well as the latest evidence supporting the optimal medical, surgical, and physical treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
  3. Content Article
    In this film the team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provide an overview of Parkinson's and why it is important that medication is administered properly and on time. They also talk about improvements they have made in their own practice, and offer tips around medication management for Parkinson's.
  4. Content Article
    Laura Cockram, Head of Policy and Campaigning at Parkinson's UK, and regular blogger for the hub, shares with us what Parkinson's UK will be doing to support World Parkinson's Day.
  5. Content Article
    The Parkinson’s Excellence Network has launched three new practical guides to support UK health professionals to deliver time critical Parkinson’s medication on time in hospital.
  6. News Article
    Former BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, now a writer and podcaster, has Parkinson's disease. Two weeks ago, after fracturing his elbow in a nasty fall, he found out just how difficult it can be to get answers from the NHS. "Getting information about one's treatment seems like an obstacle race where the system is always one step ahead. But communication between medical staff within and between hospitals also appears hopelessly inadequate, with the gulf between doctors and nurses particularly acute. "I also sense that, in some cases, new computer systems are slowing not speeding information through the system. On Saturday morning, as we waited in the surgical assessment unit, four nurses gathered around a computer screen while a fifth explained to them all the steps needed to check-in a patient and get them into a bed. It took about 20 minutes and appeared to be akin to mastering some complex video game beset with bear traps." Rory's latest experience as a customer of the health service has left him convinced that more money and more staff won't solve its problems without some fundamental changes in the way it communicates. Read full story Source: BBC News, 29 October 2023
  7. News Article
    Patients with Parkinson’s disease are being put at risk when they have spells in hospital due to a lack of timely medication, according to a new report. Some 58% of people with Parkinson’s disease who were admitted to hospital in England last year said that they did not receive their medication on time during their stay. Parkinson’s UK said that medication for people with the condition is “time critical” and a delay of 30 minutes can mean the difference between functioning well and being unable to move, walk, talk or swallow. The charity also conducted freedom of information requests on English hospitals and found that one in four (26%) NHS trusts do not have policies that allow people with Parkinson’s to take their own medication in hospitals. Only half (52%) require staff responsible for prescribing and administering medication to have training on time critical medication, the charity found. Parkinson’s UK has called for a number of measures to be put in place to make sure patients in hospital can get access to medications when needed including: ensuring there are medication self-administration policies for patients where it is safe to do so; more training for staff and better use of e-prescribing to keep on track of medication timings. Read full story Source: The Independent, 19 September 2023
  8. Content Article
    People with Parkinson’s need their medication on time every time. Yet over half of people with the condition don’t get their medications on time in hospital. This can cause stress, anxiety, immobility, severe tremors, and in some extreme cases death. Parkinson's UK are campaigning to make sure that no one with Parkinson’s is worried that they will leave hospital more unwell than when they went in.  Whether you have Parkinson’s, support someone who does, work in the health and care system or campaign to improve it, you can take action to make hospitals and care homes safer.  Together we can get more people to understand how big this problem is. And we can put pressure on the right people, across the UK, to change hospital policies, improve prescribing in hospitals and make sure staff are trained to give time critical medication.
  9. Community Post
    NHS hospital staff spend countless hours capturing data in electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems. Yet that data remains difficult to access and use to support patient care. This is a tremendous opportunity to improve patient safety, drive efficiencies and save time for frontline staff. I have just published a post about this challenge and Triscribe's solution. I would love to hear any comments or feedback on the topic... How could we use this information better? What are hospitals already doing? Where are the gaps? Thanks
  10. News Article
    Smartwatches might help diagnose Parkinson's disease up to seven years ahead of symptoms, a study suggests. The UK Dementia Research Institute team at Cardiff University used artificial intelligence to analyse data from 103,712 smartwatch wearers. By tracking their speed of movement over a single week, between 2013 and 2016, they were able to predict which would go on to develop Parkinson's. It is hoped this could ultimately be used as a screening tool. But more studies, comparing these findings with other data gathered around the world, are needed to check how accurate it will be, the researchers say, in the journal Nature Medicine. Read full story Source: BBC News, 3 July 2023
  11. News Article
    A team from NHS Ayrshire & Arran has successfully created a system to ensure that people with Parkinson’s get their medication on time while they are in hospital. Parkinson’s nurse specialist Nick Bryden, who led the team, explains: “The timely administration of medication is hugely important in helping to control symptoms in people with Parkinson’s. "Guidance states that Parkinson’s medication should be administered within 30 minutes, either side, of the prescribed time which can be challenging within a busy hospital ward environment." Nick, who works out of Biggart Hospital in Prestwick, added: “When we initially worked with our digital pharmacist, Richard Cottrell, it was to develop a system that would alert us to when a Parkinson’s patient was admitted to hospital. "It then became clear that we could take the system a step further and use it to monitor if people are on the right medication and whether or not it is being administered at the right time.” The team worked to develop a further system of clear visual prompts with NHS Digital services, which appear alongside relevant patient details on wards’ electronic whiteboards. Every patient prescribed Parkinson’s medication has a tulip symbol beside their name which changes colour and flashes when it’s close to the time to administer the medication. The system was initially piloted in a couple of wards and, due to its success, has now been rolled out to almost every ward in Ayrshire and Arran. Read full story Source: The Herald, 19 April 2023 Related reading on the hub: Top picks: Seven resources about Parkinson’s Professionals with Parkinson’s tackle time critical patient safety issue: a blog by Sam Freeman Carney
  12. News Article
    In an enormous leap forward in the understanding of Parkinson’s disease (PD), researchers have discovered a new tool that can reveal a key pathology of the disease: abnormal alpha-synuclein — known as the “Parkinson’s protein” — in brain and body cells. The breakthrough published in the scientific journal The Lancet Neurology, opens a new chapter for research, with the promise of a future where every person living with Parkinson’s can expect improved care and treatments — and newly diagnosed individuals may never advance to full-blown symptoms. The tool, called the α-synuclein seeding amplification assay (αSyn-SAA), can detect pathology in spinal fluid not only of people diagnosed with Parkinson’s, but also in individuals who have not yet been diagnosed or shown clinical symptoms of the disease, but are at a high risk of developing it. By helping to identify people at the earliest stages of PD, “We could then study what happens at different biological stages of the disease,” says Dr. Sherer. Says Ken Marek, MD, PPMI principal investigator, “αSyn-SAA enables us to move to another level in effecting new strategies for prevention of disease.” Read full story Source: The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson' research, 13 April 2023
  13. Content Article
    This 15-minute training video by the Parkinson's Excellence Network pulls together the key symptoms and issues that can impact on a person with Parkinson's and their care when admitted to a hospital ward. it aims to help ward staff understand the key issues when caring for people with Parkinson's.
  14. News Article
    Five promising technologies that could help improve symptoms and quality of life for people with Parkinson’s disease have been conditionally recommended by NICE. The wearable devices have sensors that monitor the symptoms of people with Parkinson’s disease while they go about their day-to-day life. This information may more accurately record a person’s symptoms than a clinical assessment during in-person appointments and help inform medication decisions and follow up treatment such as physiotherapy. Parkinson's disease is an incurable condition that affects the brain, resulting in progressive loss of coordination and movement problems. It is caused by loss of the cells in the brain that are responsible for producing dopamine, which helps to control and coordinate body movements. Mark Chapman, interim director of Medical Technology at NICE, said: “Providing wearable technology to people with Parkinson’s disease could have a transformative effect on their care and lead to changes in their treatment taking place more quickly. “However there is uncertainty in the evidence at present on these five promising technologies which is why the committee has conditionally recommended their use by the NHS while data is collected to eliminate these evidence gaps. “We are committed to balancing the best care with value for money, delivering both for individuals and society as a whole, while at the same time driving innovation into the hands of health and care professionals to enable best practice.” Read full story Source: NICE, 27 October 2022
  15. News Article
    A miniature radar system that tracks a person as they walk around their home could be used to measure the effectiveness of treatments for Parkinson’s. The disease, which affects about 145,000 people in the UK, is linked to the death of nerve cells in the brain that help to control movement. With no quick diagnostic test available at present, doctors must usually review a patient’s medical history and look for symptoms that often develop only very slowly, such as muscle stiffness and tremors. The device, about the size of a wi-fi router, is designed to give a more precise picture of how the severity of symptoms changes, both over the long term and hourly. It sits in one room and emits radio signals that bounce off the body of a patient. Using artificial intelligence it is able to recognise and lock on to one individual. Over several months it will notice if their walking speed is becoming slower in a way that indicates that the disease is becoming worse. During a single day it can also recognise periods where a person’s strides quicken, which means that it could be used to monitor the effectiveness of new and existing drugs, even where the effects last a relatively short time. “This really gives us the possibility to objectively measure how your mobility responds to your medication. Previously, this was nearly impossible to do because this medication effect could only be measured by having the patient keep a journal,” said Yingcheng Liu, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who is part of the team behind the device. Read full story (paywalled) Source: The Times, 22 September 2022
  16. Content Article
    Sam Freeman Carney, Health Policy and Improvement Lead at Parkinson's UK, explains how critical it is that people with Parkinson’s get their medication on time and how, on World Parkinson’s Day last year, a group of healthcare professionals who live with Parkinson’s themselves decided to take action.
  17. Content Article
    This tool from the Parkinson's Association of Ireland allows people with Parkinson's to record their essential medical information in an easy to access format, should they need assistance or medical treatment. It includes: information about the physical symptoms of Parkinson's, including how it affects speech and movement. instructions on how to interact with the person if they are having difficulty communicating. personal details and emergency contacts details of medications and treatments the person is taking.
  18. Content Article
    Falsified, fake or counterfeit medicines are medicines disguising themselves as authentic, and they can pose significant health risks. 96% of websites selling medicines operate illegally–but research suggests that over 50% of people are not aware of this. This blog highlights the issue of counterfeit Parkinson's medications being sold illegally online. Mike Isles, Executive Director of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU describes their high prevalence and gives tips for people with Parkinson's on how to stay safe when buying medicines online.
  19. Content Article
    Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world. It affects young or old, and in the UK around 145,000 people are living with the condition. With population growth and ageing, this figure is estimated to increase by 20%, within the next ten years. Currently there is no cure for Parkinson’s, but medication plays a vital role in managing symptoms and preventing deterioration. In this blog, Laura Cockram, Head of Policy and Campaigning at Parkinson's UK, talks about: How people with Parkinson’s can prepare their medication to go into hospital. Resources that can support you.
  20. Content Article
    This article in Age & Ageing describes a quality improvement project at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) that aimed to achieve timely Parkinson’s disease medication administration.
  21. Content Article
    Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world and in the UK around 145,000 people are living with the condition. When admitted to hospital, it is vital that patients with Parkinson’s get the right care and do not experience medication delays or omissions. In this blog, Dr Rowan Wathes, Associate Director of the UK Parkinson's Excellence Network at Parkinson's UK, recommends four key actions that healthcare workers can take to improve safety for people with Parkinson’s while they are in hospital. 
  22. Content Article
    At Patient Safety Learning we believe that sharing insights and learning is vital to improving outcomes and reducing harm. That's why we created the hub; providing a space for people to come together and share their experiences, resources and good practice examples.  This month, our Content and Engagement Manager, Steph, has hand-picked seven resources, particularly relevant for patient safety managers working in hospital settings. Shared with us by hub members and patient safety advocates, they are jam-packed with practical tools and rich insights. 
  23. Content Article
    Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world. It affects young or old, and in the UK, around 145,000 people are living with the condition. With population growth and ageing, this figure is estimated to increase by 20%, within the next ten years. Currently there is no cure for Parkinson’s, but medication plays a vital role in managing symptoms and preventing deterioration. In this blog, Laura Cockram, Head of Policy and Campaigning at Parkinson's UK talks about: The serious health implications of delayed medication Evidence of a widespread safety issue The challenges and barriers Potential solutions How Parkinson’s UK are campaigning for change. 
  24. Content Article
    In this blog, Consultant Neurologist Jane Alty, talks about a patient with Parkinson's who was cared for in their trust for a period of time, during which there were frequent occasions on which his Parkinson's medications were delayed or not given. This sadly contributed to a deterioration in his swallowing and overall condition, and lengthened his time in hospital.  Inspired by a letter from his wife, Jane and colleagues started the 'Improving care of patients with Parkinson’s quality improvement project' at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Here she talks about the journey, the successes and challenges, and the value of involving staff from across the organisation and carers to make services better.
  25. Content Article
    Parkinson's UK have developed a number of training resources to help health and care staff provide safe care for patients with Parkinson's.
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