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Handbook: Using the Dementia Commissioning Pack
The Department of Health has published a Dementia Commissioning Pack that provides practical resources for commissioners for use with a range of different providers, setting out a commissioning framework and outline approach to identify service development and redesign priorities.
Service specification for dementia: memory service for early diagnosis and intervention
Dementia learning and education resources Our new dementia workforce development portal provides access to a range of education and learning resources on dementia to benefit anyone interested in dementia.
The learning and education resources include:
The South West Hospital Standards in Dementia Care 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.
South West Hospital Standards in Dementia Care
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.
» Read details of a recent letter from Sir Ian Carruthers, Chief Executive of NHS South West and Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive of the Alzheimer’s Society, to SHA Chief Executives inviting them to adapt four recommendations to drive down inappropriate prescribing antipsychotic medication and providing alternative ways of working and interventions that improve the safety, quality of life and outcomes for people with dementia.
Improving prescribing support materials
This website is aimed at people working to implement the National Dementia Strategy in the South West of England. It provides information on the work of the South West Dementia Partnership , which brings together organisations from health and social care, the voluntary sector and people using dementia services to drive forward improvements.
Our implementation programme is led by:
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Living well with dementia across the South West
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