Services for patients with Parkinson’s disease within Havering Older Adult Mental Health Services

This audit looked at patients with a recorded ICD-10 diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) or PD dementia (PDD). We measured 31 such patients, 24 of whom were known to the PDNS. 28 had PDD, 1 had dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), 1 had PD with hallucinations, 1 had lifelong schizophrenia and late life IPD. Many DLB cases are probably not recorded due to lack of ICD-10 code.

We measured sources of referral for these patients – most came from PDNS and GP, much fewer from neurology, liaison or adult psychiatry.

Neuropsychiatric symptoms and medication:

Information in most recent clinic letter:

Based on these findings we plan to make the following changes to the service:

• PD nurses will attend the next memory service meeting
• Communication about PD patients to be agenda item for upcoming meetings with local GPs and neurologists
• Documentation standards developed for all clinics including letter template that requires specific information including: diagnosis, medication, information paragraph for GPs included for all patients on antipsychotics, cc all patients with PD letter to PDNS.