NICE dementia quality standard
This quality standard provides clinicians, managers and service users with a description of what a high-quality dementia service should look like. Read more »
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Care homes newsletter, issue 3, May 2010
Details on the May issue of the care homes newsletter from the National Dementia Strategy Implementation Team. This issue focuses on quality of care; what quality of care looks like and how we can achieve it. Read more »
Singing for the brain: Dementia Summit looks to the future
Launching a major event by getting everyone on their feet for a rousing song or two may sound more football than NHS, but that was precisely how the highly-successful South West Dementia Partnership Summit 2010 began at Taunton Racecourse in April. Read more »
South West standards for dementia care in hospital
These standards have been developed in response to the many concerns expressed about poor quality care experienced by people with a dementia when they are in hospital. Read more »
Altogether NOW Collectively figuring out how to develop alternatives to just paid support
This paper, based on work by organisations in the North West, looks at how providers and commissioners can work together to develop individually designed services at a time of reducing resources. Read more »
End of life quality markers for dementia
Living well with dementia: A National Dementia Strategy (DH, 2009) includes an objective of improved end of life care for people with dementia. It suggests that to meet that objective ‘local work on end of life care needs to focus on the large numbers of people who will die with dementia’ and makes reference to… Read more »
On becoming an NHS chief executive: insights from those who are
A report summarising research which identified the key career-enabling factors and other pivotal experiences that current chief executives have encountered on their own personal career journeys. Read more »
Care homes newsletter, issue 2, April 2010
Details on the April issue of the care homes newsletter from the National Dementia Strategy Implementation Team. This issue focuses on quality of life for people with dementia living in a care home. Read more »
Healthy lifestyle reduces risk of dementia
According to researchers from the University of Edinburgh, having a healthy lifestyle mid-life is likely to help stave off dementia in later life. Read more »
Confident communities, brighter futures: A framework for mental well-being
The ‘Confident Communities, Brighter Futures’ report, published by the National Mental Health Development Unit, offers a systematic evidence base from which local authorities and the NHS can act to reduce inequalities and improve mental health in their areas. Read more »