Reports from the scoping event to inform the development and delivery of the regional programme, Primary Care response to dementia: leading for improvement.
Alison Moon, regional champion for dementia care in hospitals, chaired a lively meeting of the South West general hospitals expert reference group in Taunton on Monday 24th January 2011.
The January 2011 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter is available to download from the Innovations in Dementia website.
This report sets out the findings of a literature review on spiritual care at the end of life conducted by the Universities of Hull, Staffordshire and Aberdeen. The review was commissioned to inform future work on spiritual care at the end of life, as part of the implementation of the End of Life Care Strategy. [...]
The report ‘Support. Stay. Save. Care and support of people with dementia in their own homes‘, from the Alzheimer’s Society reveals that many people with dementia and carers receive insufficient support and care at home. Part of the Society’s ongoing putting care right campaign, Support. Stay. Save presents findings from over 2,400 people with dementia, [...]
Amendments made to the Mental Health Act after the health and social care bill have been published.
This research briefing considers what active citizens can do for services and how services can best engage, support and sustain a community or volunteer workforce in order to improve health outcomes. It provides practical guidance on the steps that need to be taken to redesign services and maximise the long term benefits. This research briefing [...]
Interactive atlas which presents maps of variation across a range of disease areas to help commissioners reduce unwarranted variation in healthcare.