Dementia diagnosis resource pack
This resource pack sets out key steps for Commissioners, and key steps for General Practices to improving diagnosis, and diagnosis pathways. Read more »
Tag Archives: General practice
General Practice Awards 2012
Three leading primary care magazines, Nursing in Practice, Management in Practice and GP Business, have come together to to celebrate the success of primary care with the General Practice Awards 2012. Read more »
Primary care making a difference to people living with dementia
Two hundred GPs, health and social care staff, and volunteers working in the primary care community attended an engaging conference in Exeter to explore how primary care can make a difference to the lives of people living with dementia. Read more »
Patients benefitting from GP led health services
Examples from around the country highlight that during the first year of emerging clinical commissioning groups redesigning services, patients are starting to experience improvements in quality of care. Read more »
Guidance on clinical commissioning group constitutions
This guidance published by the British Medical Association (BMA) highlights essential elements that should be included in a clinical commissioning group (CCG) constitution. Read more »
Dementia care: How can primary care make a difference?
This complimentary conference for GPs, health and social care staff, and volunteers working in the primary care community is sponsored by NHS South of England (West) and the South West Dementia Partnership. Join us on 8 March 2012 at the Rougemont Hotel in central Exeter to find out more. Read more »
Improving dementia care in primary care: 10 key steps for General Practice
This Briefing is designed to support GPs and primary health care teams to improve the recognition, diagnosis and management of dementia. Read more »
Diagnosing Dementia Guidance and Standards
This Guidance sets out the process and associated standards for making a diagnosis of dementia in primary health care services, and by specialist memory assessment services. Read more »
Predicting primary health care costs with measures of morbidity and multimorbidity
This paper published by the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, investigates the relationship between patients’ primary care costs (consultations, tests and drugs) and their age, gender, deprivation and alternative measures of their morbidity and multimorbidity. Read more »
Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: a legal guide for practitioners
This guide produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence is aimed primarily at practitioners working in various settings for organisations involved in safeguarding. It is intended to serve as a pointer to the law and to how it can be used. Read more »