Dementia Partnerships
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 »
Dementia-friendly virtual care home
The Dementia Services Development Centre’s virtual care home has been shortlisted in the ‘Improving care with technology’ category in the Health Service Journal Awards. Read more »
Sheffield dementia information pack
This pack provides a guide to the medical, care, support and advice services in Sheffield and to living well for those worried about their worsening memory problems and those with a diagnosis of dementia. Read more »
A recent report published by the Good Governance Institute, ‘Care and support at home: an audit of telecare services in England’, provides recommendations about how telecare services and user outcomes can be improved. Read more »
This report presents findings of a Torbay pilot project and recommends that all carers of newly diagnosed patients with dementia should be offered an enhanced health check at the time of diagnosis. Read more »
Lostwithiel General Practice in Cornwall has introduced a nurse led memory assessment service to support detection, diagnosis, and post-diagnosis care and support. Read more »
Suicide prevention strategy launched
The Department of Health has launched a new cross-government strategy ‘Preventing suicide in England’ on World Suicide Prevention Day, 10 September 2012. Read more »
Dementia-specialist nurses from the secondary care memory assessment service in Bristol are now based in primary care, supporting GPs as they regain skills in managing dementia. Read more »
Details of a campaign to raise awareness of dementia amongst NHS staff, a forerunner to the public facing awareness-raising campaign. Read more »
Transforming the delivery of health and social care
This paper, published by The King’s Fund, explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population’s needs and expectations. Read more »