Election issues: Medical research and Parkinson's disease


·         The Conservative Party is proud of our country’s position as a world leader in medical research. We provide nearly £1 billion a year to health research projects and are making it easier for patients to get new medicines earlier. Supporting medical research in this way helps develop new treatments, gives patients and their families hope and saves lives.

·       Parkinson’s UK carries out important work and the support they offer to people and their families is invaluable.

·       The government has made dementia and other associated neurological conditions like Parkinson’s Disease, a top priority. As part of the Prime Minister’s personal Dementia Challenge, which also covers Parkinson’s disease, the government is committed to enhancing the services that are offered by the NHS and in the community to people who suffer from neurological diseases.

·       Specifically for people who suffer from Parkinson’s, a grant of £600,000 has recently has been given to the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute Centre in Cambridge to develop a new device for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease alongside new drugs to combat Alzheimer’s disease.

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