Help us understand your experience of NHS Talking Therapies Date 19 July 2024 NHS Talking Therapies help people with their mental health. We want to hear about your experiences.
Local campaigns update Date 12 July 2024 It's not just MPs who have been busy campaigning. Our local campaigners have been hard at work too. Here are some highlights of our work in England since the start of 2024.
Results from major study of speech and language therapy for Parkinson’s published Date 11 July 2024 The results found that Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT LOUD) is more effective than NHS speech and language therapy.
Parkinson’s UK invests in clinical trial of a potential treatment that could protect brain cells Date 2 July 2024 We're providing £1.24m through our Virtual Biotech programme to help test a potential treatment called MTX325 in people with Parkinson’s.
Parkinson's UK invests in first trial of pioneering treatment in people with Parkinson’s Date 1 July 2024 We're providing £1.55m through our Virtual Biotech programme to carry out the first clinical trials to see if HER-096 is safe for people with Parkinson’s and to start exploring its potential benefits.
Caption Researcher in a laboratory £100,000 awarded for research looking at new drug target for Parkinson’s Date 26 June 2024 Parkinson's UK is funding researchers to develop a potential set of drugs against a new target for people with Parkinson's.
Caption Image credit: Anthony Coleman Soundscape premiere brings together the young onset Parkinson’s community Date 24 June 2024 ‘I Hear You’, a soundscape of the unheard world of young onset Parkinson’s supported by Parkinson’s UK, was premiered at Bloomsbury Studio, London on Tuesday 11 June.
Caption test samples in tubes Blood test shows promise for identifying Parkinson’s before movement symptoms Date 18 June 2024 Research co-funded by Parkinson’s UK finds a new way to potentially improve diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s.
Parkinson’s UK Scotland supports legal right to palliative care under the right terms Date 14 June 2024 We’ve supported the principle that everyone in Scotland who needs it should have a legal right to palliative care. However, the new law would need additional funding and to be on the right terms for people with Parkinson’s and their families.
Parkinson's UK invests in development of potential new drugs to protect brain cells using mitochondria Date 5 June 2024 We're providing £1.6m through our Virtual Biotech programme to develop a potential new treatment targeting mitochondria to protect brain cells in Parkinson's patients.
