South West Memory Services Expert Reference Group
The South West Memory Services Expert Reference Group aims to:
- further delivery of national and regional objectives/priorities
- take an overview of services
- focus on priorities for development, and
- explore emerging/anticipated changes.
The Expert Reference Group will address the following priorities up to March 2012:
- to respond to the regional ambitions to increase diagnosis rates
- to understand commissioning arrangements via audit
- to develop and launch commissioning specification for use across South West
- to consider the accreditation challenge for the region
- to establish Provider Network, and
- to assess future challenges/potential models.
Papers from 29/09/11 meeting
Papers from 13/05/11 meeting
- Action notes
- Agenda
- Providers network agenda
- Computer self test for dementia
- Peer review
- Accreditation
- Memory assessment in primary care
Papers from 15/02/11 meeting
ERG Members
| PROVIDERS | ||
| Name | Job title | Organisation |
| Julie Anderson | Manager, Memory Services | NHS Cornwall & Isles of Scilly |
| Kate Anderson | Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Manager | NHS Plymouth |
| Dr Martin Ansell CHAIR | Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist | 2Gether NHS Foundation Trust Gloucestershire, |
| Dr Antony Christopher | Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist | Devon Partnership Foundation Trust |
| Andrew Cole and Helen McEvansoneya | Service Manager, Older Persons Modern Matron, Older Adults Service |
Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
| Paul French | GP lead for dementia | NHS Bournemouth & Poole |
| Jaine Iles | Community Service Manager for Memory Services | Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust |
| To be nominated | Dorset PCT | |
| To be nominated | Dorset Healthcare Foundation Trust | |
| COMMISSIONERS | ||
| Name | Job title | Organisation |
| Emma Bird | Commissioning Manager Older People | NHS Bristol |
| Dr Roger Bullock, | Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist | Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust |
| Tracey Compson | Dementia/QIPP MH Project Lead | NHS Swindon |
| Debbie Donnison | Area Manger | Alzheimer’s Society South West |
| Martin Freeman/Nick Cartmell | Regional GP leads for dementia | SHA |
| Susie McMullen | Commissioner | NHS North Somerset |
| Kate Mitchell | Commissioner | NHS Cornwall & Isles of Scilly |
| Ann Redmayne | Mental Health Commissioning Manager | Torbay Care Trust |
| Jenny Richards | Joint Strategic Planning & Commissioning Manager (Older People’s MH) | NHS Devon/Devon County Council |
| Alison Rowswell | Commissioner | NHS Somerset |
| Kate Schneider | Programme Lead, Mental Health and Wellbeing; Dementia | South West Strategic Health Authority, on behalf of the South West Dementia Implementation Support Group |
| South West Dementia Partnership /Development Centre representatives | ||
| Stephen Thorpe | Associate Development Consultant | South West Development Centre, on behalf of the South West Dementia Implementation Support Group |
| Helen Vaughan | Commissioning Development Manager for Dementia Services | NHS Gloucestershire |