Dementia Partnerships
Review of NHS staff engagement
Professor Chris Ham, Chief Executive of the King’s Fund, is to lead an independent review which aims to ensure NHS staff are able to give higher quality care. Read more »
Guidance on commissioning for quality in dementia care
This guidance for Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health and Wellbeing Boards provides components of excellent provision in dementia care grouped around personal outcome statements. Read more »
Building dementia-friendly communities: A priority for
everyone
This report, published by the Alzheiner’s Society, explores evidence from people with dementia about their experiences of living in their community and the ten key things they would like to see in a dementia-friendly community. Read more »
Nursing and midwifery actions at the three levels of public
health practice
This document sets out the actions to be taken by individual nursing and midwifery groups in order to maximise wellbeing and improve health outcomes as part of action area one of the ‘Compassion in Practice’ nursing and midwifery vision and strategy. Read more »
This project aims to improve leadership for dementia care in hospitals across the South West through the development of a leadership programme in general hospitals, the facilitation of the Community Hospitals Network and a peer review of community hospitals. Read more »
CMG48: Support for commissioning of dementia care
This resource supports commissioners, clinicians and managers to commission high-quality evidence-based care for people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
This programme aims to better-equip Registered Care Home Managers to meet the challenges they face; to reduce their isolation by networking them at local and national level; and to enable them to recognise their leadership role. Read more »
The Way Forward: Clinical Senates
This document published by the NHS Commissioning Board outlines the role that Clinical Senates will play in providing strategic clinical advice and leadership across a broad geographical area to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), health and wellbeing boards (HWB) and the NHS Commissioning Board from April 2013. Read more »
The NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) has recently published a document which supports the planning for Direct Commissioning responsibilities for 2013/14. Read more »
Everyone counts: planning for patients 2013-14
This guidance outlines the incentives and levers that will be used to improve services from April 2013. It identifies an outcomes indicator for dementia and highlights the value of commissioning primary care services in a way that secures improved diagnosis rates. Read more »