Parkinson's Disease: Surgery

(asked on 4th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to make deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease available on the NHS.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 9th September 2019

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance ‘Parkinson’s disease in adults’, published in July 2017 sets out evidence-based guidance for healthcare professionals and commissioners in the care treatment and support of people with Parkinson’s disease.

The guidance recommends that clinicians should consider deep brain stimulation for people with advanced Parkinson's disease whose symptoms are not adequately controlled by best medical therapy.

NHS England commissions deep brain stimulation for people with movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, in line with the criteria set out in its national commissioning. Both the NICE guidance and the commissioning policy can be found at the following links:

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng71

www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/group-d/d04/

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