Margaret Ritchie, MP for South Down, has requested a new strategy plan to develop the search for a cure and for improved treatment for Parkinson’s disease.
She asked Jim Wells MLA, Minister for Health, and the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, for a new five year strategy to drive forward the search for a cure and improved treatments available to those with Parkinson’s disease here.
Ms Ritchie said: “Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative illness that affects 130,000 people in the UK. Developments into research to search for a cure and improved treatments for sufferers of the disease has somewhat halted over the years and this is not acceptable.
“More needs to be done by the Departments of Health in Belfast and London to develop a new strategy plan that will enable scientists to search for a cure for Parkinson’s disease.
“I have asked Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State and the Minister of Health in Northern Ireland, Jim Wells to advise me on what their Departments are currently doing in terms of improving treatment and services offered to those with Parkinson’s disease in the UK”.
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