Dementia diagnosis and management
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 »
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World Alzheimer Report 2014, Dementia and Risk Reduction
The World Alzheimer Report 2014, ‘Dementia and Risk Reduction: An analysis of protective and modifiable factors’ critically examines the evidence for the existence of modifiable risk factors for dementia. Read more »
Memory services for an ethnically diverse population in Tower Hamlets
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 »
Improving dementia care: harmonisation of practice between primary care and memory services
This blog post describes an innovative initiative to create improved links links between memory services with primary care in South Manchester, inspired by the Gnosall model, now known as ‘Memory First’. Read more »
Worcestershire Early Intervention Dementia Service
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
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 »
Improving GP coding of dementia in London
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 »
Putting dementia on the map
Putting dementia on the map published by the Department of Health draws on data and information about dementia health and care, dementia friendly communities and research. Read more »
Dementia coding clean-up exercise
This exercise devised by Dr Paul Russell aims to support GPs to identify problems in coding, which are contributing to low rates of dementia diagnosis on practice registers. Read more »
Dementia Prevalence Calculator
The Dementia Prevalence Calculator presents an opportunity for all health communities to gain a better understanding of their local estimated prevalence of dementia in the community, and among people living in local care homes. Read more »