Table 1.
Geographical distribution of nurse specialists in Parkinson's disease and participants
| Health authority | No of patients randomised (n=1859) | UPA score* | No of patients per nurse | No of nurses (n=9) |
No of patients
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nurse group (n=1041) | Control group (n=818) | |||||
| Bromley | 194 | −16.8 | 135 | 1 | 135 | 59 |
| Leicestershire | 406 | −11.6 | 146 | 1.4 | 204 | 202 |
| Wigan | 206 | −9.6 | 124 | 1 | 124 | 82 |
| Gloucestershire | 443 | −9.2 | 139 | 1.6 | 223 | 220 |
| Hillingdon | 106 | −5.3 | 114 | 0.5 | 57 | 49 |
| St Helens and Knowsley | 159 | 0.5 | 95 | 1 | 95 | 64 |
| Enfield and Haringey | 156 | 11.9 | 94 | 1 | 94 | 62 |
| City and east London | 102 | 42.1 | 68 | 0.9 | 61 | 41 |
| Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster | 87 | 42.3 | 80 | 0.6 | 48 | 39 |
*
Amended underprivileged area score (excludes under 5s component); higher score is socially more deprived.