Dementia Partnerships
ExtraCare Charitable Trust
The ExtraCare Charitable Trust ia a not for profit developer and operator of ExtraCare Villages and Housing schemes which has retirement villages and housing schemes across the Midlands and North. ExtraCare’s award-winning Enriched Opportunities Programme (EOP) supports residents with dementia and dementia-related conditions. Read more »
Pathways 4 Life, Walsall
Pathways 4 Life dementia support worker service for hard to reach groups is a partnership initiative between the Accord Group and Age UK Walsall offering dementia support and advice to Black and Minority Ethnic groups (BME) in Walsall. 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 »
Integrated care for older people in South Warwickshire
The project involves early identification of, and a personalised response to, the concerns that older people have related to their health, independence and wellbeing. Read more »
Developing a person-centred narrative in Solihull
Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group have developed a person-centred narrative for ‘Jack and Eileen’, a fictional elderly couple, to help achieve a greater focus on patient outcomes, improving their quality of care and experience of using health and social care services. Read more »
Improving end of life and palliative care in South
Worcestershire
South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group have been delivering a clinically led, whole systems approach to redesigning and improving the quality of services for patients at the end of life. 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 diagnosis in Walsall
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 »
West Midlands Clinical Networks
This Network supports commissioning of high quality, outcomes focused, value for money services for people living with dementia in the West Midlands. Read more »