Dementia Partnerships
Service specification for dementia: better care at home,
and in care homes
This specification has been designed to support primary care in the assessment and management of people with problematic symptoms of dementia or other complex presentations living at home, in a care home or other residential setting. Read more »
Service specification for dementia: mental health liaison
service for general and community hospitals
This specification has been designed to assist commissioners in the delivery of a service to support general and community hospitals to deliver better care to people with dementia. Read more »
This best practice guide has been developed in consultation with an advisory group of leading clinicians specialising in dementia. Read more »
This document explains the evidence that has been used to identify eligible patients and for the design of mental health liaison services in general and community hospitals and its core components. Read more »
The Dementia Commissioning Pack (Department of Health, 2011) included a set of accompanying resources to support the reduction of inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics. Read more »
This document outlines how health and local authority commissioners can help to reduce inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia and provide therapeutic alternatives. Read more »
The Dementia Commissioning Pack provides practical resources for commissioners for use with a range of different providers, setting out a commissioning framework and outline approach to identify service development and redesign priorities. Read more »
This document sets out a number of ‘contract inserts’ which describe the specific requirements of people with dementia and their carers when using mainstream services. These may be used by commissioners when drawing up their own statements of requirements for discussions for service redesign or in a procurement situation. They may be included in a… Read more »
This document explains the evidence that has been used to identify eligible patients and for the design of the memory service and its core components. Read more »
The Commissioning framework for dementia may be used to revisit and re-establish the principles underpinning local commissioning priorities|to enhance integrated approaches to commissioning, and integrated service delivery|and to inform the use and adaptation of the accompanying Assessment Tool within the Dementia Commissioning Pack. At each phase of the dementia journey, the framework sets out: outcomes… Read more »