The South of Tyne and Wear Memory Protection Service provided by the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist care led service with primary care support serving 84,000 people living in Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead. Read more »
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) provide a specialist led memory service that serves approximately 50,000 people of age 65 and over living in Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber. 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 »
Worcestershire Early Intervention Dementia Service (EIDS) have developed a clear referral pathway, which includes pre-assessment counselling, consent, family engagement, assessment by a competent specialist and sensitive disclosure, leading to better access to treatment and support. Read more »
Memory 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 »
This 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 »
This project aims to adopt the Gnosall primary care based memory assessment approach to improve dementia diagnosis in harder to reach communities in Buckinghamshire. Read more »
This project aims to develop a more user-friendly care pathway for people living with dementia in Oxfordshire by providing easier access to assessment for early diagnosis and support within primary care settings. Read more »
The Gnosall dementia service identifies patients at risk or in the early stages of dementia in a primary care setting. Read more »