Dementia Partnerships
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 »
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Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy
This landmark document sets out initiatives to transform services and make the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families better and more fulfilled. Read more »
Inspiring leaders: leadership for quality
This guidance provides a best practice framework for the development of leaders across healthcare. Read more »
A better return: setting the foundations for intelligent commissioning to achieve value for money
This report describes how the Third Sector could evidence its wider impact on public services and their delivery. Read more »
Access of BME staff to senior positions in the NHS
This report explores the organisational barriers to black and minority ethnic (BME) staff rising to positions of authority and influence in the NHS in order to inform future developments. Read more »
Transforming community services: enabling new patterns of provision
This guidance is intended to help providers of community services to move their relationship with their commissioners to a purely contractual one, consider what type(s) of organisations would best meet the future needs of patients and local communities, and how change can be managed to support the transformation of services to patients. Read more »
Systematic reviews of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions that promote mental well-being in later life
This review of 21 databases and 11 websites sought evidence, published between January 1993 and February 2007, of the effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of interventions to promote mental well-being in later life. Read more »
Teams without walls: the value of medical innovation and leadership
Teams without walls bring together healthcare professionals from primary and secondary care to work across traditional health boundaries to deliver care that puts the patient first. The working party, made up of representatives from the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, suggest… Read more »
Strengthening the involvement of people with dementia
toolkit
This toolkit augments the section ‘Involving service users and their carers’ in ‘Everybody’s Business – a service development guide’. Read more »
Developing forums for people with dementia
This report provides an evaluation of the Alzheimer’s Society project developing forums for people with dementia by the Dementia Services Development Centre for Wales. Read more »