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Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease: diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care

Guidance type:  Clinical guideline
Date issued:  June 2006
Expected review date:  June 2010
Reference:  CG35

Summary

The NICE clinical guideline on Parkinson's disease covers:

  • the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and checking the diagnosis regularly
  • the way people with Parkinson's disease should receive information
  • the medicines that can be used
  • other ways of helping with symptoms
  • how to care for people whose mental health is affected
  • the care people with Parkinson's disease should receive at the end of their life
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Implementing this guidance

A costing report and costing template have been produced by NICE to provide an implementation tool to estimate the financial impact to the NHS of implementing the clinical guideline CG35 Parkinson's Disease

The costing report focuses on the financial impact of the recommendations that require most change in resources to implement in England. The report has been prepared in consultation with the guideline development group, and other clinicians working in this area and has been approved for publication by the Institute. It should be noted that the cost and activity assessments in the report are estimates based on a number of assumptions. These assessments provide an indication of the likely impact of the principal recommendations and are not absolute figures.

As part of this work, a costing template has been developed to provide health communities with the ability to assess the likely local impact of the principal recommendations in the clinical guideline based on local population. Other assumptions can be altered to better reflect local circumstances.

To support implementation a slide set and implementation advice have also been produced.

The Institute would welcome feedback from users to inform the development of future templates. Please email your comments to costing@nice.org.uk

Any further information NICE has produced to help the NHS implement this guideline locally is linked to below:

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