iSPACE – supporting dementia friendly GP surgeries in WessexThe iSPACE project led by Dr Nicola Decker, a GP at Oakley and Overton Surgery and dementia lead for the North Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group, has developed a suite of resources to help make a GP surgery dementia friendly. Read more »
Improving accuracy of the GP practice Dementia Register in South ManchesterIn one GP Practice in South Manchester, a simple, systematic audit of the coding on an EMIS general practice dementia register increased the number of registrations from 50 to 74 without clinical intervention. Read more »
Memory FirstMemory First is an integrated dementia service run by a consortium of 162 GPs across 41 practices in Staffordshire. Its pioneering joined-up approach to care has cut diagnosis times from 3 years to 4 weeks and led to major improvements in patient experience. Read more »
Improving GP coding of dementia in LondonThis project aimed to find out whether it is possible to raise diagnosis rates through undertaking an exercise to ‘clean up’ dementia coding and records at a practice level. The hypothesis was that problems in GP coding may be contributing to the reported dementia diagnosis gap. Read more »
Integrated care for older people in South WarwickshireThe project involves early identification of, and a personalised response to, the concerns that older people have related to their health, independence and wellbeing. Read more »
Wirral Local Enhanced Service for DementiaThis sets out Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group’s shared care arrangements for people diagnosed with dementia through a GP Local Enhanced Service for Dementia Care. Read more »
This project aims to support primary care commissioners and CCGs to improve prescribing for people living with dementia across the South West. Read more »
This project aims to suport CCGs in the South West to deliver 2013-14 and 2014-15 ambitions for diagnosis rates by improving diagnosis in primary care and diagnosis pathways. Read more »
This project will deliver a new service to develop Dementia friendly communities capable of supporting people to live well with dementia in Guildford and Waverley. Read more »
This project will recruit 5 Dementia support workers to improve the support, information and co-ordination of services for people living with dementia in Plymouth. Read more »