The South West Dementia Workforce Network held another highly successful meeting on the 17th March 2011 at Taunton Rugby Football Club. Attendance was very high and there was a mixture of people, organisations and sectors from across the region including health, social care, voluntary sector, private and independent sectors, workforce funding provider and Skills for Care.
A new approach to quality and outcomes in adult social care was recently launched today with the publication of the first Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework.
This paper sets out how Torbay created an integrated care system that aimed to improve care for ‘Mrs Smith’, a fictitious user of health and social care services.
The Alzheimer’s Society says that action needed to improve dementia care, following the publication of the Care Quality Commission’s second annual report on the state of health care and adult social care in England.
The Alzheimer’s Society says that the NHS should offer checks for dementia when people reach 75.
UK scientists have taken another step forward in their search to identify the causes of Alzheimer’s.
This online resource, produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, will help commissioners and providers to ensure that any help or support offered at any stage in a person’s journey with dementia is offered in a timely way.
Reports and presentations from the Think Tank on Dementia and Big Society held on February 2011 by the Department of Health National Dementia Strategy implementation programme.
The final NICE guidance means the drugs Aricept, Exelon and Reminyl will be available on prescription to people in the early and moderate stages of Alzheimer’s and Ebixa will be available to people in the late stages.
The latest issue of the Developing the healthcare workforce in NHS South West newsletter outlines the process being adopted for the phased rollout of the learning environment to NHS organisations and staff groups.