Dementia Partnerships
Helping you to assess cognition: A practical toolkit for
clinicians
This toolkit published by the Alzheimer’s Society provides guidance to clinicians about what cognitive function tests are available and how they may be used in clinical practice. Read more »
This project aims to improve care and support to people living with dementia and their carers in Gloucestershire in order to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and premature residential care admission as well as to reduce length of stay after a hospital admission. Read more »
This project aims to achieve the first step towards South Gloucestershire becoming a more dementia friendly community by delivering specific actions in the Cribbs Causeway area. Read more »
This South Gloucestershire based project aims to share good practice and ensure that all patients and carers get equal access to post diagnosis support and information via a range of media: face to face, handbooks, leaflets, telephone and the web. Read more »
This project aims to introduce portable personal safety device to transform the lives of vulnerable individuals living with dementia by giving them greater independence and providing effective personalised support, wherever they go. Read more »
This project aims to make Gloucestershire a dementia friendly community improving the quality of life for people living with dementia now and those who are affected by dementia in the future. Read more »
Torbay and South Devon dementia care home learning
community
This project aims to develop an innovative service to improve the quality of life of people with dementia through the development of a care home learning community in Torbay and South Devon. Read more »
This Bristol-based project will put people with dementia at the heart of hospital design to improve their experience of care, highlighting the important role the environment can play in supporting innovation in service delivery and care quality. Read more »
This project will support people with dementia and their carers/family by providing new courses that people can use once they have had a diagnosis of dementia. All these courses will be in the community near to where people live in Bristol. Read more »
This project aims to make Somerset dementia friendly place in which people with dementia are valued, befriended and encouraged to live independently and engage in everyday activity. Read more »
This project aims to provide a new pathway of care for people with dementia admitted to the Royal United Hospital Bath, which puts carers and patients in the ‘driving seat’, improving discharge and reducing unnecessary admissions in future. Read more »
West of England Academic Health Science Network
The West of England Academic Health Science Network will accelerate the spread of innovative, evidence-based care to improve health and care quality. Read more »
This project aims to make Plymouth a dementia friendly city in which people with dementia can enjoy the same opportunities to take part in a social life, live independently and engage in everyday activity as other people, without fear of stigma or rejection. Read more »
This project will support people in rural areas of Bath and North East Somerset to achieve early diagnosis of dementia and get the support they want in the way that they want it, enabling people to live at home in the way that they choose. Read more »
This project aims to stop the cycle of readmission in crisis by improving end of life care planning starting when a person with dementia is first admitted to a Dorset hospital in an emergency. Read more »
This project will develop Dementia friendly communities across Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole, increasing public awareness of dementia and assisting people with dementia to remain independent and to have choice and control over their lives. Read more »
This project aims to develop dementia friendly communities in Cornwall and to deliver community and hospital peer support alongside the provision of meaningful activities. Read more »
North West Coast Academic Health Science Network
The North West Coast Academic Health Science Network covers all NHS organisations in Merseyside, South Cumbria, and most of Cheshire and Lancashire. Read more »
Imperial College Healthcare Partners
Imperial College Healthcare Partners is the designated Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for North West London. Read more »
The Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network aims to enhance the lives of more than four million people living and working in Kent Surrey and Sussex. Read more »
UCLPartners
UCLPartners helps people to work together to translating cutting edge research and innovation into measureable health and wealth gain for patients and populations in London, across the UK and globally. Read more »
The South West Peninsula Academic Health Science Network supports the adoption and spread of new ideas and best practice across Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Read more »
West Midlands Academic Health Science Network
The West Midlands Academic Health Science Network will create and support an environment for sustainable improvement to the health, wealth and wellbeing of the population of the West Midlands. Read more »
Wessex Academic Health Science Network
The Wessex Academic Health Science Network aims to deliver life-long health benefits through system-wide collaboration, accelerating the emergence of new technologies, services and wealth, whilst facilitating rapid knowledge exchange and uptake into education and training. Read more »
Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network
The Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network main aim is to improve population health and create opportunity for wealth and employment through building on our assets and adopting effective method for reliable implementation of agreed best practice. Read more »
Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network
The Academic Health Science Network for Yorkshire and the Humber will create and harness a strong, purposeful partnership between patients, health services, industry, and academia to achieve a significant measureable improvement in the health and wealth of the population. Read more »
North East and North Cumbria Academic Health Science
Network
The North East and North Cumbria Academic Health Science Network is committed to improving both the health and economic prosperity of its region through innovation, research and dissemination of knowledge. Read more »
The Network works across four large, established biomedical and clinical communities, to drive sustainable improvements, through partners with a track record of excellence in research, teaching and education, health services and industry. Read more »
East Midlands Academic Health Science Network is a systematic delivery mechanism for innovation, enabling all National Health Service and Higher Education Institutions industry and other partners to engage in research and innovation from its inception, and translate their expertise once that research and innovation is ready for implementation. Read more »
Oxford Academic Health Science Network
The Oxford Academic Health Science Network enables partners to come together with commissioning bodies, patients and the public to form a community to participate in providing evidence based best care for our patients and population, to innovate and in so doing, to deliver new opportunities to create wealth. Read more »
Health Innovation Network South London
The Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London, the Academic Health Science Network for South London, is a partnership that connects academics, NHS commissioners and providers, local authorities, patients and patient groups, and industry in order to accelerate the spread and adoption of innovations and best practice, using evidence-based research across large populations. Read more »
This project will support people living with dementia in Kent and Medway to remain in their own homes, including care homes, avoid unnecessary admission to hospital and reduce the prescription of antipsychotic drugs. 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 »
This project will commission a Dementia Support Worker Service to develop a support network for people with dementia, their family and carers living in North Somerset. Read more »
This project aims to improve the experience of people with dementia whilst in acute hospitals across Kent and Medway. Read more »
This project will deliver improved support for people with dementia and their carers living in the community by extending the capacity of the Community Care Teams in Fareham and Gosport. Read more »
This project will implement a training and mentoring package to develop Circles of Support for people with dementia in North Hampshire. Read more »
This project seeks to improve the quality and consistency of domiciliary care delivered to people with dementia in Berkshire, ensuring that staff are aware and adequately trained in dementia care using a relationship and person centered approach. Read more »
This project aims to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers living in Corwall, ensuring they receive timely diagnosis and support to live well at home or in a care home, to end of life. Read more »
This project will support the development of dementia friendly communities in Kent and Medway, enabling people living with dementia to remain independent and have choice and control over their lives. Read more »
This project will establish a primary care based model of memory assessment to increase the recognition, diagnosis and targeted case management of people living with dementia in Kent and Medway. Read more »
This project will deliver a programme of awareness-raising, learning and volunteer action to create a network of 60 informed, supportive, dementia-friendly communities across Oxfordshire. Read more »
This project will support dementia Link nurses in West Kent to work in primary care and proactively identify, diagnose, triage and assess people with dementia and provide appropriate prescribing and post diagnostic support. Read more »
This project will support people with dementia to be discharged back to their own home as soon as possible following an attendance at A&E or an admission to an acute hospital in West Kent. Read more »
This project will improve the provision of end of life care for people living with dementia in care homes within the Surrey Downs area. Read more »
This project aims to use the toolkit developed by Hampshire County Council to establish dementia friendly communities in Farnham and Surrey Heath. Read more »
This project aims to increase diagnosis rates in the Surrey Downs community by adopting an innovative approach of using Specialist Link Nurses. Read more »
This project aims to support the development of Dementia Friendly Communities to reduce isolation, anxiety and exclusion, and improve the quality of life for those with dementia and their families living in North West Surrey. Read more »
Low expectations
This report published by the Alzheimer’s Society stresses the need to lift expectations and to strengthen existing minimum standards to boost quality of life for people with dementia in care homes. Read more »
Dementia awareness regional tour
Government Ministers are visiting each region to meet local leaders taking action on dementia awareness, diagnosis, care and research. The South West regional event will be held in Gloucester on 25 April, 2013. Book your place now. Read more »