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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Caring for Carers
The Caring for Carers Hub developed by the Royal College of General Practitioners is a web based tool that can help primary care staff to more effectively support carers and the people they care for. Read more »
Dementia revealed: what primary care needs to know
This toolkit written by Dr Elizabeth Barrett is intended as an educational resource for use by GPs and practice nurses to expand their knowledge and confidence. Read more »
Improving accuracy of the GP practice Dementia Register in South Manchester
In one GP Practice in South Manchester, a simple, systematic audit of the coding on an EMIS general practice dementia register increased the number of registrations from 50 to 74 without clinical intervention. 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 »
Improving the identification of people with dementia in primary care
This journal article presents findings of work to develop guidance on the coding of dementia and reports on the impact of applying this to ‘clean up’ dementia coding and records at a practice level in London. 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 »
Dudley dementia pathway and gateway service
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 »
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 READ codes
This knowledge summary defines a standard set of READ codes for the diagnosis of dementia to be used by general practices and memory assessment services. Read more »