Member Involvement in Research

News on the new Parkinson's UK member research organisation

Planning is under way to create new organisational arrangements within Parkinson's UK to involve all members of the Society interested in research. This will mean bringing together SPRING, the Research Network, Branch members, supporters and other interested individuals. The SPRING committee is working to make sure that within the new arrangements there will be more opportunities for more people to be involved in a wider range of research activities in support of finding a cure.

An important aspect of the new arrangements will be the encouragement of more research-focussed activities throughout the country thus enabling more people to be involved locally.

 You can expect more of the events and activities to be organised of the sort that SPRING and the Research Network have engaged in and which have contributed so much to the research strategy.  But we want them to be more accessible and to involve more people throughout the UK.  And we want more imaginative ideas to emerge that will give greater impetus to the search for a cure to Parkinson's.  Enormous progress has been made in the last few years which gives hope that that elusive cure - the freeing of people from the devastating symptoms of Parkinson's - is not too far away.

Pilot projects are being organised in three UK regions:  Wales, the East and the East Midlands.  Keep an eye on SPRING Times to see how these work out in 2011.