The 3rd Annual South West Dementia and Hospitals Conference will be held on 12 March 2012 at the Rougemont Hotel, Queen Street, Exeter, EX4 3SP.
As the NHS attempts to secure unprecedented productivity gains, new research from the Nuffield Trust suggests how hospitals can improve efficiency.
Salisbury District Hospital has received a positive report on the care it provides to patients with dementia following a review carried out by specialists and carers from the South West region.
A one-off additional £150m will be allocated to Primary Care Trusts in England, for immediate transfer to local authorities for investment in social care services which also benefit the health system.
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 King’s Fund briefing examines whether reducing the use of hospital beds for emergency admissions could help the NHS as it needs to find £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015 to avoid reducing quality and making significant cuts to services.
This is the fifth publication of data on the accident and emergency (A&E) clinical quality indicators, drawn from A&E data within provisional hospital episode statistics.
In this blog Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia for England, talks about fragility fractures and the association with dementia.
Hospitals in the South West are working to improve standards of care for patients with dementia. A regional Expert Reference Group made up of clinical leads for dementia, patients and carers, the voluntary sector and service commissioners has developed a set of eight standards to drive improvement.