2019 UK Parkinson's Audit - Speech and language therapy

The UK Parkinson’s Audit assesses care provided to people with Parkinson's by a range of clinical specialties against evidence-based guidelines.

The speech and language therapy audit includes services providing care to people specifically in connection with their Parkinson’s. Services submit data on their model of service delivery and the assessments which are routinely carried out (service audit) and data on the care provided over the last 12 months to at least ten of their consecutive patients seen during the five-month data collection period (patient audit). No patient identifiers are collected.

The audit is open to services across the UK - secondary care (non-acute) and community services. A service is self-defined - for example an individual therapist or a group of therapists seeing the same cohort of patients. There can therefore be more than one service taking part in any Trust or setting.

The 2019 audit includes data from 79 speech and language therapy services covering 1022 patient cases.

The data is available by UK Parkinson’s Excellence Network region. The UK Parkinson's Excellence Network is a network of health and social care professionals working to improve Parkinson's services administered with support from Parkinson’s UK. Professionals can join the Network to access resources, increase their knowledge of Parkinson's and collaborate with people affected by Parkinson's to transform health and care services.

The audit is the recognised quality improvement tool for the Excellence Network, providing an important baseline against which progress can be measured, informing national, regional and local service improvement priorities and plans to achieve better services for people living with the condition.

The regions are:

England:
Cheshire and Merseyside
East of England
East Midlands
Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Cumbria
London
North East and Cumbria
Peninsula
South East Coast
South West
Thames Valley
Wessex
West Midlands
Yorkshire and Humber

Scotland:
North Scotland
South and East Scotland
West Scotland

Northern Ireland:
Northern Ireland

Wales:
North and Mid Wales
South Wales

Other:
Guernsey
Isle of Man
Republic of Ireland

Information about the regions can be found here: https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/professionals/local-parkinsons-excellence-network-groups