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Summary report: evaluation of Parkinson’s ‘Care of the elderly’ out-patient clinics: perspectives from patients, carers and staff.

Henderson, Louise; Dundas, Freda; Forbes, Jacqueline; Harvey, Adaline; Norris, Sarah

Authors

Louise Henderson

Freda Dundas

Jacqueline Forbes

Adaline Harvey

Sarah Norris



Abstract

There has been a marked increase in the number of patients presenting with Parkinson symptoms over the past year 2013/2014. Care of the Elderly Parkinson Consultant Clinics are held across Grampian with the frequency varying from twice monthly to every 3 months, dependent on location. Nurse Review clinics would be an option to run in tandem with the Consultant Clinic. The project rationale was to achieve: a) A more integrated Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) working b) Make specialist services more accessible c) To bring services in line with: Health-Fit vision. (NHS Grampian, 2010); QIS Standards for Neurological Care. (The Scottish Government, 2010) and NICE Guideline 35: Parkinson’s Disease Management. (National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence, 2006. The project objectives were: 1) To relieve pressure on current Consultant led Clinics and improve access to specialist Parkinson’s services, by delivering these services nearer to the patient’s own home 2) To reduce waiting times for new patients to be seen, and reduce the waiting times for complex patient reviews (by means of relieving pressures on Consultant time and affording the opportunity to develop ‘urgent review’ clinic slots 3) To potentially cut down on avoidable acute admissions to hospital 4) To improve the patient out-patient clinic experience. Aim of the audit was to create a questionnaire to obtain patient, carer and staff clinic experience to: a) Establish current patient/carer/staff experience b) Identify if non-motor symptom assessments were carried out c) Establish willingness of patient/carers to attend/support Nurse Review Clinics d) Establish which professionals carers/patients would like to see at Clinics.

Citation

HENDERSON, L., DUNDAS, F., FORBES, J., HARVEY, A. and NORRIS, S. 2015. Summary report: evaluation of Parkinson’s ‘Care of the elderly’ out-patient clinics: perspectives from patients, carers and staff. Aberdeen: Clinical Effectiveness Team, NHS Grampian.

Report Type Technical Report
Publication Date Jul 31, 2015
Deposit Date Jul 7, 2020
Publicly Available Date Aug 26, 2021
Publisher NHS Grampian
Keywords Parkinson's Disease; Nurse review clinics; Consultant led clinics
Public URL https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/944052
Related Public URLs https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/923378