How our service can help you
The community Parkinsons specialist service provides nurse-led care for people over the age of 18 who have been diagnosed with Parkinsons or Parkinsonism. The service can offer:
- Advice, support and management of symptoms
- Regular clinical consultations by telephone, at a local clinic or home visits
- Proactive group sessions to promote healthy lifestyles including exercise and information/education sessions to help patients manage their condition
- Integrated care to ensure the service is coordinated alongside other services and therapies to improve the management of the condition
- Advice, support and training for health professionals involved in managing the condition.
The specialist nurses are important in keeping people in the community by providing crisis management to avoid unnecessary emergency admission to hospital, reducing length of stay if they are admitted and preventing unnecessary outpatient appointments. It also aims to support people with appropriate medication regimes.
The service also provides GPs with support and advice in dealing with the management of complex patients by providing direct access to minimise GP contacts as appropriate. The specialist nurses also often act as the lead professional for patients with Parkinsons.
Contact the service
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Peterborough
Parkinson’s Peterborough
Unit 2
Phorpres Close
Cygnet Park
Hampton
Peterborough
PE7 8FZ
Cambridge
Nye Bevan House
Brookfields Hospital
351 Mill Rd
Cambridge
3B1 3DF
T: 0330 726 0077
- Business Hours/Visiting Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm, excluding Bank Holidays
Referral Information
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Please send referrals for the service to CPM-TR.Parkinsons@nhs.net here.The Parkinsons nurses support patients and carers registered with a GP in the following areas:
- Huntingdon
- Ely and Fenland
- Peterborough
- Cambridge
Where to park and are there parking charges?
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There are a variety of clinic venues which are NHS facilities (hospital and GP Surgeries). Some of these charge for parking, others will be free.
Is there access and support for patients and visitors with a disability?
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There are a variety of clinic venues which are NHS facilities (hospital and GP surgeries). Generally there is access for people disabilities, although this may not always be the case. Please contact the admin team to discuss on a case by case basis.
How to cancel your appointment
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Please call the admin team on 0330 726 0077 to cancel or rearrange your appointment.
Other essential information
- The Parkinsons nursing team are not an emergency service. If you have an emergency please contact your GP, dial 111 or 999 depending on your emergency and circumstances. Useful websites - Parkinsons UK : https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/
Carers Information
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A carer is anyone, including children and adults who looks after a family member, partner or friend who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction and cannot cope without their support. The care they give is unpaid.
At Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, we value the often life-long support carers provide and recognise them as equal care partners. We want to offer as much guidance and reassurance as possible, to help you in your caring role. You can find general information and support for adult carers, young carers and parent carers by following this link.
