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 British Medical Association has published a toolkit that provides practical advice to doctors on promoting and protecting the wellbeing of vulnerable adults.
Patients with dementia in Exeter are benefiting from new ways of working at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, thanks to an older people’s mental health liaison service.
The South West Hospital Standards in Dementia have been developed in response to the many concerns expressed about poor quality care experienced by people with a dementia when they are in hospital. Action over the next 2 years to implement systematically these 8 standards, alongside the findings of the National Audit of Dementia Care, is intended to transform hospital care for people with a dementia.
Defines the role and training requirements of the dementia ward champion, developed at Musgrove Park Hospital, part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
A report on the progress of the service which aims to improve recognition and treatment of Dementia and other Mental Health problems in South Gloucestershire.
Launching a major event by getting everyone on their feet for a rousing song or two may sound more football than NHS, but that was precisely how the highly-successful South West Dementia Partnership Summit 2010 began at Taunton Racecourse in April.
Older people along with their families and carers in Bristol and South Gloucestershire are finding an additional form of mental health support available at Bristol hospitals.