Services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Patients with suspected Parkinson’s Disease or related movement disorders are assessed and managed by Neurology<\/strong> or Medicine of the Elderly<\/strong> consultants depending upon age and frailty<\/p>\n\n\n\n For any patients, particularly those aged under 65 years<\/strong> \/ biologically young<\/strong> or those with atypical movement disorders<\/strong>, refer to Neurology <\/strong>via SCI Gateway<\/p>\n\n\n\n For patients aged over 65 years, there are specialist Parkinson’s clinics in each area of Lothian (please see Medicine of the Elderly Parkinsons<\/a> page)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Neurology Movement Disorders Clinic is based at the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and run by Drs Richard Davenport and David Breen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parkinson\u2019s Disease Nurse Specialists within NHS Lothian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone with a suspected diagnosis of parkinsonism. Patients who may find it difficult to attend an outpatient clinic. In such cases, remote consultation may be possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patients should ideally not start Parkinson’s disease medication prior to secondary care assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consider referral to physiotherapy, SALT and\/or OT depending upon circumstances<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.parkinsons.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.annerowlingclinic.org\/research-trials\/find-project\/neurocare<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Parkinson’s Disease \/ Movement disorder clinics Services Patients with suspected Parkinson’s Disease or related movement disorders are assessed and managed by Neurology or Medicine of the Elderly consultants depending upon age and frailty For any patients, particularly those aged under 65 years \/ biologically young or those with atypical movement disorders, refer to Neurology via SCI Gateway For patients aged over 65 years, there are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4173,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"class_list":["post-4287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-parkinsons"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" Parkinson's<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Parkinson’s Disease \/ Movement disorder clinics Services Patients with suspected Parkinson’s Disease or related movement disorders are assessed and managed by Neurology or Medicine of the Elderly consultants depending upon age and frailty For any patients, particularly those aged under 65 years \/ biologically young or those with atypical movement disorders, refer to Neurology via SCI Gateway For patients aged over 65 years, there are","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23469,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4287\/revisions\/23469"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Who to refer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Patients who have been diagnosed elsewhere with parkinsonism and are new to the area.
Patients should be referred at time of diagnosis and may be re-referred at any time in their journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWho not to refer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
How to refer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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