This recently published toolkit identifies the main elements involved in the commissioning process, explains the commissioning cycle in practical terms and offers a four-stage approach across all sectors. Read more »
The Department of Health has published the fourth annual report on progress in delivering the End of Life Care Strategy. Read more »
The Right Care: creating dementia friendly hospitalsThe Right Care is a call to action to transform the acute hospital experience for people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
This handboo outlines ten practical steps to help healthcare professionals deal with an impending difficult conversation with a dementia patient as well as identifying the areas of conversation you will likely encounter. Read more »
This study sought to explore needs of people with dementia and their informal carers in the last year of life and surrounding death. Aims: The main aim of this study was to explore experiences of this group identifying their underlying needs at this time. 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 »
Dr Adrian Treloar on palliative care at homeDr Adrian Treloar explains how Greenwich and Bexley Advanced Dementia Services provide holistic and palliative care at home for people with advanced dementia. Read more »
QS13: End of life care for adultsThis quality standard published by the National Clinical Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) defines clinical best practice in provding end of life care for adults. Read more »
Dignity in dementia; improving care in general hospital settings, a Royal College of Nursing led project, has launched tools to improve the care of people with dementia in general hospitals. Read more »
Creative Compassion – Your StoriesThis is a transcript of the Creative Compassion workshop, held at the 2nd annual Dementia care in hospitals conference 5th July 2011, in which participants shared stories illustrating their insights about creativity and compassion in dementia care. Read more »