Welcome to University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Parkinson Service
These pages provide information for people with Parkinson’s, their care givers/carers and healthcare professionals. We hope that you find it useful, and please do let us know if there is anything else you would like information about.
Who are we and where can we be found?
Our Parkinson’s Service comprises of Healthcare of the Elderly and Neurology Consultants/Doctors, specialist nurses, specialist practitioners, assistant practitioners, administrators (pathway coordinators), all with specialist training in Parkinson’s and Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes such as Progresive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA).
As well as assisting to support our medical teams here at UHP with the management of people with Parkinson’s and some Parkinsonism’s, when admitted, our Parkinson’s Specialist Team based within Derriford Hospital, will see patients who have been newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s and provide support through the stages, provide support and advice to patients with Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes and see patients on Device Assisted Therapies (DAT), advanced therapies and research participants.
Specialist Parkinson’s clinics (practitioner/consultant led) are held in East Cornwall at Liskeard Community Hospital, West Devon at Tavistock Minor Injury Unit and various clinical sites in Plymouth, these include Mount Gould Hospital, Thornbury Centre, and Derriford Hospital.
Acute Parkinson’s Specialist Team
Parkinson's Nurse Specialist (Parkinson's Service Lead)
- Emma Pearson
Parkinson's Specialist Practitioner
- Rob Davies
Parkinson's Specialist Practitioner
- Kimberly Saunders
Parkinson's Specialist Assistant Practitioner
- Kevin Triscott
Parkinson's Specialist Team Administrators and Pathway Co-ordinators (UHP)
- Danielle Oakley, Tallia Jory and Miranda Szwarcbach
Contact Details
01752 430048 option 6
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Parkinson's Specialist Consultants
Consultant Geriatrician (Parkinson's Service Lead)
Consultant Neurologist (Parkinson's Service Lead) Associate professor in Neurology | Institute of Translational and Stratified Medicine, Peninsula Medical School
- Dr Stephen Mullin
Consultant Neurologist
Consultant Geriatrician in Health Care of the Elderly, Medical Examiner
Consultant in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine, Service Line Director for Healthcare for the Elderly
Home Based Care
Honorary Consultant Neurologist
- Professor Camille Carroll
HBC Parkinson's Nurse Specialist
- Nicky Stapleton
HBC Coordinator
- Katie Hammett
Assistant Practitioner
- Jemma Inches
PKG Coordinator
- Georgie Gilbert
HBC Pathway Coordinator
- Miranda Szwarcbach
Contact details:
01752 432681
Community Parkinson’s Specialist Teams
Plymouth, South West and West Devon
Parkinson's Nurse Specialists
- Emma Edwards 01752 434237 / 434522
- Stacey Pearce 01752 434237 / 434522
- livewell.parkinsonsnurseservice@nhs.net
South Devon
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Movement Disorder Team
- 01803 860852
- sdhct.movementdisorderteam@nhs.net
South East and West Cornwall
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Cornwall Parkinson's Nurse Specialist Service
- 01209 318048
- pdnurses.cornwall@nhs.net
Exeter, Mid, East and North Devon
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Parkinson's and movement discorders
- Exeter - Claire Soper - 01392 405477
- Mid and East Devon - Em Baker and Sam Moore - 01392 405453
- North Devon - Lynn Gill - 01271 322361
- Exeter Inpatient Team (Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital) - 01392 411611