Excellence Network pump priming for Parkinson’s specialist nurses, and allied health and mental health professionals
The Excellence Network supports services to recruit and retain specialist staff to improve care for people with Parkinson’s.
We've paused pump priming expressions of interest process for the time being, and our 2025 pump priming round will only be open to services who've already submitted an expression of interest.
We expect to reopen the process in late 2025, ready for 2026 applications. Check back here for announcements.
Our flagship Complete Care for Parkinson’s programme, allowed us to significantly expand our pump priming scheme, to support the growth of the Parkinson's specialist nurse and allied health professional workforce.
We set an ambitious target of funding 20 new nurse posts and 20 new allied health Professional posts by the end of 2025. Since 2022, we've funded 31 new posts in the NHS and are well on the way to reaching our target. We're currently reviewing applications or processing expressions of interest from a large number of NHS services.
In light of this, the expressions of interest process is temporarily paused.
If you've already submitted an expression of interest, your dedicated service improvement adviser will be in touch to advise you on your next steps towards pump priming. You can also contact the team at [email protected].
Parkinson's UK, through the Excellence Network, continues to be committed to supporting the NHS to grow and develop excellent health and care services for people with Parkinson’s. Pump priming is just one of the ways that we can support you.
New applications for pump priming are paused, but our Service Improvement and Grants team is still here to support you with:
- service improvement projects
- service threats
- development of new services and pathway redesign
- implementation of Audit plans.
Email [email protected] for more information or to access support.
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