Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 49795

Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

Tabled: 1 May 2025
Answered: 8 May 2025
Named Day

Question

Nadia Whittome

LabourNottingham East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients referred for a potential diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease are seen by a neurologist within 18 weeks.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Government is committed to delivering the National Health Service constitutional standard for 92% of patients to wait no longer than 18 weeks from Referral to Treatment by March 2029, a standard which has not been met consistently since September 2015...

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