News

Friday 8 March is International Women's Day and Parkinson's UK is celebrating all the inspirational women who either help to deliver our physical activity programmes, or have become physical activity advocates with Parkinson's. 

This week’s spring budget failed to offer much-needed support for people with Parkinson’s.

A further trial of a device-delivered GDNF is not going ahead, but other approaches are showing promise.

At the end of March, the government’s cost of living support will come to an end. Yet our new research has found that for many people with Parkinson’s, the cost of living crisis is far from over. 

Predict-PD is a study that aims to understand the risk factors of Parkinson’s. More than 10,000 people are now taking part and are representative of the ethnic diversity within the UK population.  

Parkinson's UK has launched a series of new physical activity fitness videos to help more people get active online and to live well with the condition. 

The dates and venues for a new snooker project supported by Parkinson's UK and the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) have been announced. 

Leading scientists and patient organisations have worked together to develop a framework for using 2 tests to identify Parkinson’s in clinical trials.

We’re calling for more specialist nurses to support the growing population of people living with Parkinson’s in Scotland.

In 2023 Parkinson’s UK campaigners and staff took action on the cost of living crisis, increasing the health and care workforce, and improving the benefits system and time critical medication administration in hospitals