Parkinson's Disease Specialist Pharmacy Network
The Parkinson's Disease Specialist Pharmacy Network's (PDSPN) mission is to improve the lives of people with Parkinson's by enabling and inspiring pharmacy teams to play an active role in Parkinson's management across all clinical settings.
What is the PDPSN?
The PDSPN is led by a steering committee of pharmacists from different sectors with a shared interest in Parkinson's. The network was founded by Janine Barnes, Neurology Specialist Pharmacist, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust in 2018 and the committee initially met in October 2019 with Janine as Chair. In 2022, Stephanie Bancroft, Community Pharmacist based in North West London took over as Chair and Janine replaced her as Deputy Chair.
Open to all pharmacy professionals, the benefits of membership are:
- an annual conference with programmes of national experts and guest speakers
- access to support and guidance from a network of professionals through Basecamp, the online collaboration platform
- opportunities to collaborate with pharmacy professionals across the 4 nations of the UK.
Interested in joining the PDSPN? Click the link below and ask to join. Your email will be forwarded to the PDSPN and you'll also be added to Basecamp, the online collaboraton platform.
The Excellence Network Pharmacy professionals learning library is a directory of educational courses and resources. The PDSPN worked with the Parkinson's UK Excellence Network Education team to develop, review and update the contents.
A range of resources aimed at hospital and community based pharmacy professionals. The PDSPN collaborated with the Excellence Network to create and review these resources.
Find out more about the PDSPN
The PDSPN won the 2022 Excellence Network Awards Shared Learning and Education category with their poster: ‘The Formation and Development of the PDSPN’.
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