Past audits
Have Parkinson's services improved? See results of previous UK Parkinson's Audits from 2009 to 2022.
The 2022 UK Parkinson's Audit
The most recent UK Parkinson's Audit was in 2022, with 506 services from across the UK taking part.
The previous Audit took place in 2019. There was no Audit in 2021, to give services more time to adjust due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
2022 Audit reports
Read the 2022 Audit executive summary (PDF, 203KB)
Read the 2022 Audit summary report (1.9MB)
UK Parkinson’s Audit data dashboards
The UK Parkinson’s Audit data dashboards provide a visual display of 2022 Audit data by audit question, clinical speciality, and geographically by Parkinson’s UK Excellence Network regions.
Other past audits
An Audit took place in 2019. There was no Audit in 2021, to give services more time to adjust due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
2019 Audit priority areas for improvement
- specialised multidisciplinary working
- standardised practices
- communication and information sharing
- medicines management
- supporting the workforce.
2019 Audit reports
Read the 2019 Audit executive summary (PDF, 227KB)
Read the 2019 Audit summary report (PDF, 1.12MB)
See the 2019 Audit complete data tables (PDF, 404KB)
See the 2019 Audit participating services (PDF, 193KB)
Visual displays of 2019 Audit data by audit question, clinical speciality, and geographically by Parkinson's UK Excellence Network regions can be viewed in the UK Parkinson's Audit data dashboards.
Explore the UK Parkinson's Audit data dashboards.
The 2017 Audit revealed there had been improvements across many areas of practice, but that work was needed across the 5 areas for improvement shown below.
The 2017 Audit identified priorities for change and areas for improvement:
- specialised multidisciplinary working
- standardised practices
- anticipatory care planning
- communication and information sharing
- medicines management.
You can read more about the Audit findings in these reports:
The 2015 UK Parkinson's Audit gave the first proper overview of the state of Parkinson's services, showcasing good practice but highlighting many areas for improvement.
It was the first to include a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM), giving people with Parkinson's a stronger voice in rating the services they receive.
2015 UK Parkinson's Audit Summary Report (PDF, 4MB)
2015 UK Parkinson's Audit Patient and Carer Report (PDF, 3.07MB)
2015 UK Parkinson's Audit Reference Report (PDF, 6.08MB)
The 2015 Audit identified priorities for change and areas for improvement:
- access to a full multidisciplinary team
- timely provision of patient information
- addressing issues with inpatient management
- consistent uses of standardised assessments
- anticipatory care planning.
This Audit reported on the care provided to 4,079 people with Parkinson's from elderly care, neurology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy services.
Occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy were added in 2011. Previously, the Audit focused on neurology care and elderly care services only.
This Audit evaluated care given to 6,106 patients with Parkinson's from 325 services (equivalent to 191 Trusts).
We audited 1,880 patients with a suspected Parkinson's diagnosis from 53 Trusts or equivalent organisations.
The first Parkinson's Audit, with 41 centres who provided elderly care or neurology services giving data on 1,256 patients.