People with dementia receive care from staff appropriately trained in dementia care.
- Service providers ensure that all health and social care workers are appropriately trained in dementia care according to their roles and responsibilities.
- Health and social care professionals who work with people with dementia ensure they receive training in dementia care consistent with their roles and responsibilities.
- Commissioners ensure service providers have arrangements for training health and social care professionals in dementia care.
- People with dementia can expect that the health and social care professionals who care for them will have dementia care training.
Local data collection
Contained within NICE CG42 audit support, criterion 9. Acute Trusts can collect data on dementia awareness training using the National Audit of Dementia organisational checklist, section 7. Find out more