This guide aims to set out the policy drivers and strategic context for transforming dementia care, and why it is of importance to commissioners, providers and sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) in supporting delivery of a number of objectives in the Department of Health’s Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia 2020, published February 2015, which complements the aims of the Five Year Forward View, published in October 2014. Read more »
This resource pack published by NHS England aims to support GPs to identify and appropriately manage dementia patients in the primary care environment. Read more »
The introduction of an integrated, patient centred dementia service has had a positive effect on diagnosis rates and cost effectiveness in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Read more »
The Dudley Dementia Pathway provides a single point of access for GPs and other health and social care professionals who can refer for assessment to specialist nurses. Read more »
Nottingham West Clinical Commissioning Group has incrementally commissioned a range of long term conditions pathways that have spread and sustained as models of good practice. Read more »
Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group has developed whole-system dementia commissioning model to improve diagnosis, the experience and outcomes of people with dementia and their carers. Read more »
This guidance for Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health and Wellbeing Boards covers the role of neuro-imaging in the diagnosis of dementia in primary care. Read more »
This project aims to improve the early diagnosis of dementia by increasing the number of initial screening assessments and raising awareness about the benefits of assessment and early diagnosis as part of an overarching Aging Well campaign across East Berkshire. Read more »
This template will support Clinical Commissioning Groups and general practices to plan work to improve dementia diagnosis rates and care pathways. Read more »
This report shares the findings from the peer review of memory assessment services which took place in the South West at the start of 2012. It highlights for Clinical Commissioning Groups and their local partners innovation, learning, and opportunities for improvement across the diagnosis pathway. Read more »
Implementation guide and resource pack for dementia care
