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.
The Better Care Better Value indicators compiled by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement identify potential areas for improvement in efficiency whilst improving quality. They can help to stimulate ideas on where commissioners should focus their attention in re-designing and shifting services away from the traditional setting of the hospital and out towards community based care.
This resource pack jointly published by the Housing LIN and ADASS is intended to support local strategic commissioning, planning and investment decisions to help transform and improve the range of housing choices for older people.
Plymouth University was commissioned to provide an evaluation of the Dementia Quality Mark accreditation and implementation process in the South West and to provide recommendations for its future use.
The Government plans to allow people to comment on and rate care home services in the style of consumer websites such as TripAdvisor.
Researchers in Germany were able to postpone a decline in cognitive function amongst people with dementia in a nursing-home setting who participated in a 12 month regime of behavioural and mental exercises.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia (APPG) has issued a controversial challenge to the NHS to reduce hospital beds by at least 10 per cent and free up £1 billion for community based dementia services.
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Dementia Action Alliance have launched a call to action to work together to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers by reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotics for these people.
This guidance document provides support to commissioners and providers in implementing the 2011/12 NHS Standard Contract for Care Home services.
A Which? magazine recent investigation put actors into four care homes to spend a week living as ‘residents’. This article includes a video report where Which? magazine experts and actors talk about the findings.