Dementia Partnerships
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, with SW Peninsula Deanery have funded one Specialty Training Registrar (STR4) GP trainee to work with local general practices to develop understanding about, treatment and care for people living with dementia. Read more »
This action plan outlines work underway to achieve improved, responsive and quality services for people with dementia and their carers across Devon. Key areas include: a GP clinical lead for dementia; a localised Map of Medicine; a memory assessment pathway; a GP education programme. Read more »
Useful resource on the diagnosis of dementia and early intervention in primary care published by the Royal College of General Practitioners. Read more »
The Gloucestershire dementia strategy recognises the pivotal role of primary care staff, and GPs in particular, in diagnosing dementia and in subsequently co-ordinating care across a range of services. Read more »
This document produced by NHS Bristol outlines the care pathway for people with dementia and their families and carers living in Bristol. Read more »
This plan sets out actions to improve the diagnosis of dementia and provide better services for people living with dementia across Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole. Read more »
New models of care for dementia
This report proposes a new understanding of the dementia journey and a revised model of care for dementia, aimed at improving experiences and outcomes, and informing service redesign and commissioning. Read more »
This audit tool produced by NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly enables the identification of people living with dementia by General Practice. Read more »
This plan sets out actions to accelerate dementia diagnosis across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Read more »
The Right Prescription on-line community
Join the Right Prescription on-line community and take action to reduce the inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotic drugs for people with dementia. Read more »
Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia
The Prime Minister’s challenge aims to deliver major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015. The main areas for improvement are: awareness, dementia-friendly communities, quality care and research. Read more »
The National Dementia CQUIN aims to help identify patients with dementia and other causes of cognitive impairment, alongside their other medical conditions and to prompt appropriate referral and follow up after they leave hospital. Read more »
Fact sheet on the Care of people with dementia in primary care published by the Royal College of General Practitioners. Read more »
This Guidance sets out the process and associated standards for making a diagnosis of dementia in primary health care services, and by specialist memory assessment services. Read more »
A team of GPs working to improve dementia care in London, with support from specialist experts, has put together this GP dementia coding guideline. Read more »
A collection of leaflets, books and reports on Alzheimer’s and dementia resources published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Read more »
This framework sets out the high-level national outcomes that the NHS should be aiming to improve. These are: Preventing people from dying prematurely Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care, and Treating… Read more »
The purpose of this document is to support emerging health and wellbeing boards as they engage with the refresh of Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and develop their preparatory joint health and wellbeing strategy. Read more »
This briefing paper by Jeremy Porteus, Director of the Housing learning and improvement network, provides an overview of the health and social care ‘dividend’ that can be achieved by closer integration and partnership working with housing. Read more »
This report sets out a delivery agenda for spreading innovation at pace and scale throughout the NHS to improve outcomes for patients and deliver value for money. Read more »
This is a call to work together in a way that that will unite us in our common cause to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers by reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotics for these people. Read more »
Service specification for dementia: memory service for
early diagnosis and intervention
This specification has been designed to assist commissioners to commission a memory services for early diagnosis and intervention. Read more »
Personalisation and dementia: a practitioner’s guide
to self-directed support for people living with dementia
This guide to personalisation and dementia has been written for, and with input from, people living with dementia, their families and friends, and the practitioners who support them. Read more »
This document explains the evidence that has been used in designing the service to support people with dementia, whether living at home or in care homes, as well as dementia-specific elements of other Communities. Read more »
This report presents an evaluation of existing models of community-based support for people with dementia, their families and carers. Read more »
The Framework states that anyone working with people with dementia must be properly trained and that people with dementia must have one point of contact who can coordinate all their health and social care needs. Read more »
QS13: End of life care for adults
This 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 »
This report explores what difference leadership development makes, and how it can have impact on service and quality improvement. Read more »
Engaging doctors in leadership: what can we learn from
trusts with high levels of medical engagement?
This briefing paper shares the key findings from a study of seven trusts which achieved high Medical Engagement Scale (MES) scores from an initial survey involving 30 trusts in England. Read more »
What’s leadership got to do with it?
This report explores what difference leadership development makes, and how it can have impact on service and quality improvement. Read more »
The roles of leaders in high-performing health care
systems
This paper reviews five health care systems that are viewed as ‘high-performing’, using cross-case methods to identify the key factors linked to their success, examining their leadership strategies, organisational processes and the investments they made to create and sustain improvements in care. Read more »
Followership in the NHS
This paper suggests that the current focus on leadership underestimates the role of followers in securing a successful health service and overestimates the ability of individual ‘heroic’ leaders to make a significant difference to all circumstances. Read more »
Leadership in context: Lessons from new leadership theory
and current leadership development practice
Kim Turnbull James outlines some of the latest thinking in leadership theory and leadership development and includes three case studies of leadership development programmes which incorporate these ideas. Read more »
Developing effective leadership in the NHS to maximise the
quality of patient care
Using feedback from a number of experienced NHS leaders, Chris Roebuck reviews past NHS leadership development and identifies leadership development options from the commercial sector that would benefit the NHS. Read more »
The future of leadership and management in the NHS. No more
heroes
This report explores whether the model, prevalent in public service over recent years, of the ‘hero’ chief executive still hold sway? Read more »
A study conducted by Oxford University researchers reveals that the cost of dementia across 15 western European countries came up to £165 billion in 2007. Read more »
Making involvement count
The resource pack is made up 18 cards each aimed at giving specific information, advice and top tips on a range of topics that will help overcome or prevent this, and support people with dementia to get involved in activities whilst recognising their current abilities. Read more »
This guidance will support commissioners to better understand workforce planning and development issues that may impact staff working with people with dementia and their carers and families. 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 »
World Alzheimer Report 2011: The benefits of early
diagnosis and intervention
This report commissioned by Alzheimer’s Disease International, shows that there are interventions that are effective in the early stages of dementia, some of which may be more effective when started earlier, and that there is a strong economic argument in favour of earlier diagnosis and timely intervention. Read more »
An NHS Bristol incentive scheme which has achieve over 50% sign up and from those practices, nearly 250 people were identified as having dementia and added to the registers. The biggest improvement was 37 people in one practice (2012-13). Read more »
Dementia Competency Framework
The dementia competency framework supports staff to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to provide high quality dementia care. It distinguishes the different competencies needed across three steps from basic awareness to specialist knowledge and skills. Read more »
This report explains the methodology and details the currently available outcomes of a locally-delivered GP education seminar programme intended to improve primary care awareness, knowledge, early identification and management of people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
Creative Compassion – Your Stories
This 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 »
This Alzheimer’s Society factsheet explains the link between Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, and the benefits of having MCI diagnosed. Read more »
This is a template action plan for use by local authorities and commissioning consortia working together under the auspices of Health and Well-being Boards to improve care for those people with dementia who live in their own homes or in some other residential setting. Read more »
Service specification for dementia: mental health liaison
service for general and community hospitals
This specification has been designed to assist commissioners in the delivery of a service to support general and community hospitals to deliver better care to people with dementia. Read more »
Service specification for dementia: better care at home,
and in care homes
This specification has been designed to support primary care in the assessment and management of people with problematic symptoms of dementia or other complex presentations living at home, in a care home or other residential setting. Read more »
This is a request for a proposal to improve care for people with dementia in hospital. Read more »
This best practice guide has been developed in consultation with an advisory group of leading clinicians specialising in dementia. Read more »