The Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) This questionnaire assesses how often people with Parkinson's experience difficulties across 8 dimensions of daily living.
Unified Dyskinesia Rating Scale (UDysRS) This scale evaluates the involuntary movements that can be associated with long term treatment with dopaminergic medication.
Unified Dystonia Rating Scale (UDRS) The rating scale allows clinicians to evaluate the level of dystonia experienced by people affected by Parkinson's.
Parkinson's disease sleep scale (PDSS - 2) This rating scale enables health and social care professionals to quantify the level of sleep disruption in order to determine treatment.
Parkinson's disease fatigue scale This rating scale can be used to assess levels of fatigue and measure any changes that treatment or lifestyle changes may effect.
Excellence Network data dashboards These data dashboards have been developed by the Parkinson’s Excellence Network in partnership with Wilmington Healthcare. They provide a snapshot of hospital episode data trends and number of people with Parkinson's in different areas.
Access our exercise framework for professionals We worked with people with Parkinson's, expert physiotherapists and exercise professionals to produce a Parkinson's exercise framework.
Medicines optimisation consensus statement This consensus statement, along with its supporting checklist, case for service change and audit appendices, outlines the key medicines management issues that may face people with Parkinson's who are admitted to hospital. This includes the need to get their medication on time. It also highlights ways to manage these effectively.
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) The MoCA (Nasreddine et al. 2005) is a brief cognitive screening tool for Mild Cognitive Impairment. It is intended for use by health professionals only.
NICE guideline [NG71]: Parkinson's disease in adults This guideline covers diagnosing and managing Parkinson's, aiming to improve case from the time of diagnosis.