Question follow-through · 96706
Parkinson's Disease: Health Professions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many a) neurologists with specialist training in Parkinson’s, b) geriatricians with specialist training in Parkinson’s, and c) specialist Parkinson’s nurses are currently practising in the NHS.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many a) neurologists with specialist training in Parkinson’s, b) geriatricians with specialist training in Parkinson’s, and c) specialist Parkinson’s nurses are currently practising in the NHS.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2025
Answer published
While the Department does not hold data specifically on the number of Parkinson’s specialist staff in England, we do hold data on the number of doctors working in the wider specialities of neurology and geriatric medicine. As of August 2025, there were 2,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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