Dementia Partnerships
Dementia: assessment, management and support for people
living with dementia and their carers
This NICE guideline covers diagnosing and managing dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease). It aims to improve care by making recommendations on training staff and helping carers to support people living with dementia. Read more »
National Audit of Dementia – third report
The National Audit of Dementia (NAD) (care in general hospitals) measures the performance of general hospitals against criteria relating to care delivery which are known to impact upon people with dementia while in hospital. The third audit collected data between April and November 2016. Read more »
Family support rooms at Pinderfields Hospital
The family support rooms at Pinderfields hospital, run by Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, enable families to stay together when a family member has dementia or is at a palliative-care stage of their life. Read more »
#nhsthinkcarer
Stories from Commitment to Carers – are we making a difference? event held in London and social commentary from across the web via #nhsthinkcarer. Read more »
Commissioning for Carers Principles
This practical tool is part of a suite of products that will help commissioners to deliver what carers say is important to them in ways that have been shown to work effectively and efficiently in practice. Read more »
Carers Evidence Summits ebook
NHS Improving Quality has produced an ebook to share the Commitment to Carers achievements over the last year. It includes the findings from the regional Carers Evidence Summits and links to over 50 case studies. Read more »
Ladder to the Moon
Ladder to the Moon provides workforce and service development that enables health and care organisations to develop active, creative, vibrant care services. It uses approaches that incorporate creativity and the arts, and involve staff, older people living with dementia and other long-term conditions, and the wider community. Read more »
A review of the NHS hospitals complaints system: putting
patients back in the picture
This report calls for a revolution in the way in which the NHS handles complaints throught better transparency, learning lessons from mistakes and for continuous improvements in quality. Read more »
Improving end of life and palliative care in South
Worcestershire
South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group have been delivering a clinically led, whole systems approach to redesigning and improving the quality of services for patients at the end of life. Read more »
Caring for People with Dementia: You can make a
difference
This DVD about dementia is a learning resource for care staff (domicilary and care home), hospital staff and primary care staff. It is divided into several chapters which cover aspects of dementia care from diagnosis to end of life/dignified death. Read more »