Dementia Partnerships
£2.4m funding for dementia workforce development
Skills for Care will make £2.4 million available to employers through the Workforce Development Dementia Fund to support the completion of relevant accredited qualifications by those members of the workforce who support people with dementia. Read more »
An Alzheimer’s Society training programme is being rolled out to 150 care homes across the UK to increase understanding and awareness of dementia and provide tools, ideas and resources to enable staff to provide good quality person-centred care. Read more »
Skills for Care and Dementia UK have jointly published of a new guide designed exclusively for the social care workforce which aims to spread best practice in supporting family carers of people with dementia. Read more »
Severn Deanery has recruited five GP Dementia Fellows to work with local practices to develop understanding about, treatment and care for people living with dementia. Read more »
Guide to antipsychotic drug use in dementia care
This guide summarises some of the main considerations in the prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia. Read more »
Porters and cleaners at Bristol hospitals are helping to ensure patients with dementia get the best possible care. Read more »
Dementia Care in Hospital: A compendium of positive
practice
The compendium brings together a selection of some of the many positive developments and practices initiated to improve the quality of dementia care in hospitals across the South West of England. Read more »
The Design Council have launched five design concepts to help people with dementia and their carers live better, including: buddiband; ode; Dementia Dog; Grouple and Trading Times. Read more »
The independent Nursing and Care Quality Forum would like to hear your views on the quality of nursing and care, and how you think this could be improved. Read more »
A briefing, published by the National Nursing Research Unit at King’s College London, examines different approaches to and the evidence to support intentional rounding, often referred to as nurse ‘care rounds’ in the UK. Read more »