The project received funding from the NHS Digital Health Partnership Award and is delivered at UHP by Senior Parkinson’s Nurse Nicky Stapleton and the Neurology team, as well as David Brown who is the Steering Group Chair. Also working on the project are University of Plymouth PhD student Katie Bounsall, Paras Patel, Project Manager at Newcastle Health Innovation Partners, and Precious Onyeachu, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Newcastle University.

This award builds on the previous success of the service, which was also highly commended in the BMJ Award’s Digital Innovation Team of the Year category in 2021.

The next step for the Home Based Care project team is to continue to build its digital system, called SMaRT-PD (Self-Management, Remote monitoring and Timely review for Parkinson’s Disease), which will be evaluated across different Parkinson’s services.

The hope is that this will enable the team to understand whether adjustments need to be made to the service, or whether SMaRT-PD provides an effective way to deliver Parkinson’s care within the NHS, supporting its implementation into Parkinson’s services across the UK.