News for professionals

We take you through our achievements for this year and the past 10 years as an active and engaging network.

This year, our Exercise Hub celebrated its 10 year anniversary. 2025 also marks a new chapter as specialist physiotherapists Beccy Oliver and Julie Jones step down as joint leads of the Exercise Hub and we welcome new leadership in 2026.

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT), in partnership with the Parkinson’s UK Excellence Network, have launched Parkinson’s guidance for professionals and people with Parkinson’s.

We’ve launched an exercise toolkit for health professionals who work with people with Parkinson's, to help GPs and nurses conduct meaningful conversations around physical activity and exercise with their patients.

Last year we heard from Kneu Health on how smartphones are transforming Parkinson’s care in the NHS. Here, we catch up with Dr Ledia Agley, Head of Customer Success at Kneu Health, to take us through how their technology has recently supported a Parkinson’s exercise programme at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Patsy Cotton, Chair of our Time critical medication steering group, reflects on the most recent developments in our action packed programme.

We’ve launched a refreshed and more in depth Foundation Programme designed for health and care professionals.

We’ve published new guidance to help speech and language therapists successfully support patients’ funding applications for Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST) devices.

We're thrilled to announce the results of our 2025 small project grants round, with funding awarded to 5 services nationwide to enhance Parkinson’s care.

Parkinson's UK's recent study on the prevalence of Parkinson's in the UK has been published in Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. It shows that Parkinson's prevalence  is rising, and there are other findings that health professionals need to be aware of.