Parkinson's Disease

Clinical Nurse Specialist for Parkinson's can be contacted for advice 01271 322361 or 01271 322577 bleep 420 .

Falls patients

Please contact the locality Health and Social Care teams. Telephone and video assessment is being offered in preference to face to face contact where possible

Stroke

Clinical Nurse Specialist or senior team member for Stroke can be contacted for advice 01271 322577 bleep 032 8am-7pm daily including weekends.

Patients can be referred through the transient ischaemic attack (TIA) clinic which can offer telephone or video assessment or face to face if required.

Referrals to TIA clinic will be triaged and offered either face to face, telephone or video consultations as appropriate.

The Rapid Intervention Centre Single Point of Access takes referrals for patients who have an urgent care need and is currently only taking referrals between 8am - 6pm. This is reduced because of staff sickness, however in the next month or so, we are hoping to return to our usual working hours of 7.00 to 10.30. Telephone: 01392 381208

Routine referrals, please see Advice & Guidance information

For advice and guidance please contact the Care of the Elderly team through the secretaries:

• Acute (including Stroke) telephone: 01271 322448
• Community (including Falls and Parkinson's) telephone: 01271 341566 Monday - Wednesday am or 322448

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Care of the Elderly secretaries:

• Acute (including Stroke) telephone: 01271 322448
• Community (including Falls and Parkinson's) telephone: 01271 341566 Monday – Wednesday am or 322448

Patient information

• MyHealth-Devon: Dementia

Pathway Group

This guideline has been signed off on behalf of the NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group

Publication Date: May 2020

Date updated: March 2022