King's Fund programme to focus on dementia care environments
The King’s Fund Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme will this year focus on dementia care environments. Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Commissioning for personalisation: a framework for local authority commissioners
This framework explores refocuses existing and emerging perspectives on commissioning for health and wellbeing through the lens of personalisation. Read more »
Department of Health launches Carers Direct
The Carers Direct information service is designed to provide a single and comprehensive online resource to help carers manage their lives around caring. Read more »
Talking mats
Talking Mats is an established communication tool, which uses a mat with symbols attached as the basis for communication. Read more »
In their own words
These four films follow the experiences of people with different stages of Alzheimer’s. The first three films follow the experiences of Bill Wilson, Daryl Munday and Stan Lintern. In part four Kanta and Prabhakant Patel talk about their mother, Chanchalben Patel who sadly died in 2004. Read more »
Reforming leadership development … again
This paper asserts that debates about improving management and leadership in the NHS are not new and continuous reform suggests that previous attempts may not have tackled the right problem. Read more »