The November 2011 edition of the Living with dementia magazine is available to download from the Alzheimer’s Society website.
NHS South of England officially came into effect on 3rd October 2011. It is made up of three former strategic health authorities NHS South Central, NHS South East Coast and NHS South West.
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 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 NHS must never discriminate based on age – that was the message given by Care Services Minister Paul Burstow today as he announced that the Department of Health will not be seeking any exceptions to the planned implementation of the Equality Act 2010.
A recent article in the Health Service Journal reveals that the Care Quality Commission is working on an IT system to monitor social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter for complaints about care homes and healthcare providers.
In the South West we have adopted a collaborative approach to develop a standard Dementia Quality Mark (DQM) to assure the quality of care being provided to people living with dementia in care homes.
The strategy sets out what the Care Quality Commission aims to achieve for people who use health care and social care over the next five years.