Hospital care conference 2013
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This year’s Dementia care in hospitals conference will be held on 8th March 2013 at Taunton Racecource. Book your place now Read more »
Category Archives: Hospital care
PM announces new measures to improve hospital dementia care
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a new set of care quality measures which aim to drive up the quality of care experienced by people with dementia in hospitals. Read more »
Alistair Burns on the prescribing of antipsychotic drugs for people with dementia
Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, talks about the Report of the National Dementia and Antipyschotic Prescribing Audit. Read more »
Compassion in Practice
Compassion in Practice sets out a vision to embed six values: care, compassion, courage, communication, competence and commitment, known as the Six C’s, throughout the NHS to improve care for patients. Read more »
Apply for funding to create dementia friendly environments
Expressions of interest are now being accepted from care providers for funding of up to £50 million to improve the surroundings of people living with dementia. Read more »
Dementia care in hospital peer review stage 2
The South West Expert Reference Group for Dementia Care in Hospital and the clinical leads for dementia in general hospitals will be facilitating a second review in the South West between December 2012 and February 2013. Read more »
Commitment to the care of people with dementia in hospital settings
This resource developed by the Royal College of Nursing aims to support people working in hospitals to apply five principles for improving the quality of care and support for people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
Hospital 2 Home discharge pack
This recently published resource is designed to make it easier for professionals involved in hospital discharge to support older patients in returning home safely after a hospital stay and reduce the risk of readmission to hospital. Read more »
Find me good care
Social Care Institute for Excellence has launched a new service called ‘Find Me Good Care’, to help people find good care in response to research that reveals many people are mystified by the care system. Read more »
The Right Care: creating dementia friendly hospitals
The Right Care is a call to action to transform the acute hospital experience for people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
Enhancing the healing environment
The King’s Fund Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme involves 23 teams from acute and mental health NHS trusts seeking to make acute general hospital environments less alienating for people with cognitive problems. Read more »
National dementia and antipsychotic prescribing audit
The National dementia and antipsychotic prescribing audit aims to gather information from primary care to establish a national picture of prescribing antipsychotic medication in people with dementia. Read more »
Actions to improve care following the Winterbourne review
The Department of Health recently published an interim report of the review into the events at Winterbourne View hospital.This letter highlights action to be taken to improve care and outcomes of people with learning disabilities or autism. Read more »
OPAL tream shortlisted for Care Integration Award
The work of the Older Persons Assessment and Liaison for Dementia team at Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised by being short listed for the dementia care category of the Care Integration Awards. Read more »
Responding to the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge in the South of England
Sir Ian Carruthers, OBE, Chief Executive of NHS South of England, recently wrote to Clinical Commissioning Group Chairs, Directors of Social Services and Primary Care Trust Cluster Chief Execeutives, outlining an ambitious programme of work for the South of England in response to the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge. Read more »
Dementia support role for porters and cleaners at Bristol hospitals
Porters and cleaners at Bristol hospitals are helping to ensure patients with dementia get the best possible care. Read more »
Dementia Care in Hospital: A compendium of positive practice
The compendium brings together a selection of some of the many positive developments and practices initiated to improve the quality of dementia care in hospitals across the South West of England. Read more »
Give your views on improving the quality of nursing care
The independent Nursing and Care Quality Forum would like to hear your views on the quality of nursing and care, and how you think this could be improved. Read more »
Results of the latest inpatient survey
Read the findings from the Care Quality Commission Inpatient survey 2011, which looked at the experiences of over 70,000 people who were admitted to NHS hospitals around England. Read more »
Evidence to support nurse care rounds
A briefing, published by the National Nursing Research Unit at King’s College London, examines different approaches to and the evidence to support intentional rounding, often referred to as nurse ‘care rounds’ in the UK. Read more »