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Category Archives: Service improvement
Supporting planning for 2013/14 for Direct Commissioning
The NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) has recently published a document which supports the planning for Direct Commissioning responsibilities for 2013/14. Read more »
Our Health website launched across the South of England
In line with the commitments set out in the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, the Our Health website has been rolled out across the South of England. Read more »
Improving support for people with dementia living within minority ethnic groups
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia has launched an inquiry into the provision of support for people living with dementia in minority ethnic groups in the UK. Read more »
Describing good services for people with learning disabilities
The Department of Health is seeking information on how services can deliver the right model of care and deliver better outcomes for people with learning disabilities and/or autism, and behaviour which challenges. Read more »
Delivering major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015: A report of progress
This report by the three Champion Groups leading the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia provides an update on progress since the launch of the Challenge in March 2012. Read more »
Transforming models of care at Dementia Congress
In this poster presentation, given at the UK Dementia Congress, Edana Minghella, proposes a new understanding of the dementia journey and a revised model of care for dementia, aimed at improving experiences and outcomes, and informing service redesign and commissioning. Read more »
Advance care planning toolkit
A team at the National End of Life Care Programme (NEoLCP) has developed an advance care planning toolkit to help care providers approach the planning process with confidence and knowledge. Read more »
Growing support for dementia compact
The English Community Care Association recently announced many more providers have signed up to the Dementia Care and Support Compactand and improving services to people who have dementia.
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South West memory services peer review
This report shares the findings from the peer review of memory assessment services which took place in the South West at the start of 2012. It highlights for Clinical Commissioning Groups and their local partners innovation, learning, and opportunities for improvement across the diagnosis pathway. Read more »
Delivering personalised support for people living with dementia
Details of a recently published self-assessment tool for managers to use with their staff to check how they are doing in delivering personalised support for people with dementia. Read more »
Strategic clinical networks
The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has set out its plan for a small number of strategic clinical networks to improve health services for specific patient groups or conditions, including 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 »
South of England conference on improving dementia services
Details of a major conference in Reading on May 29th 2012 to progress the implementation of the National Dementia Strategy in the South of England, building on the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge. 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 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 »
Professor Alistair Burns discusses the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia
In this video blog Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia talks about the key aspects of the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia: driving improvements in health and care, creating dementia friendly communities, and improvements in research. Read more »
The case for tomorrow: facing the beyond
This new report from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services is the successor document to the influential ‘All our Tomorrow’s’ report published in 2002 and articulates six key areas that require attention to create the environment to build better care and wellbeing services for older people. Read more »
New models of care for dementia
This report proposes a new understanding of the dementia journey and a revised model of care for dementia, aimed at improving experiences and outcomes, and informing service redesign and commissioning. Read more »
Dementia Care in Hospital: Building on Strengths
Two hundred hospital staff and volunteers attended an engaging conference in Exeter to explore how to make a difference to the lives of people living with dementia while in hospital. Read more »