Dementia Partnerships
Patient-led assessments of the care environment
This letter published by the NHS England introduces Patient-led assessments of the care environment (PLACE), the new system for assessing the quality of the hospital environment from April 2013. Read more »
Not just a number: Review of home care services
This report published by the Care Quality Commission
highlights the findings of inspections of 250 domiciliary care
agencies providing at-home support and care.
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Wide variations in the quality of end of life care across the country were revealed in findings of the VOICES survey recently published by the Office of National Statistics. Read more »
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly uses the STAR tool to support medications review and ensure appropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medications. Read more »
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 »
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 »
The National dementia and antipsychotic prescribing audit aims to gather information from primary care to establish a national picture of prescribing antipsychotic medication in people with dementia. Read more »
The NHS London quality outcomes tool for general practice provides bundles of outcome indicators for general practices to promote transparency, manage performance, and identify opportunities for improvement. 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 »
Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia
The Prime Minister’s challenge aims to deliver major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015. The main areas for improvement are: awareness, dementia-friendly communities, quality care and research. Read more »