10 Key Steps to improving diagnosis
Improving dementia care in primary care: 10 key steps for General Practice
Improving dementia care in primary care: 10 key steps for General Practice
This Briefing is designed to support GPs and primary health care teams to improve the recognition, diagnosis and management of dementia. It promotes:
- people’s rights, and tackling stigma associated with dementia
- case finding approaches
- tools to support initial assessment
- tips for better coding and record keeping, and
- signposts to additional training and education resources.
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Improving diagnosis of dementia: 10 key steps for Commissioners and Clinical Commissioning Groups
Improving diagnosis of dementia: 10 key steps for Commissioners and Clinical Commissioning Groups
Both briefings are supplemented by additional resources, including:
- Dementia Care in Primary Care Toolkit (South West Dementia Partnership, 2012)
- Diagnosing Dementia Guidance and Standards (South West Dementia Partnership, 2012)
- New Models of Care for Dementia (South West Dementia Partnership, 2012)
Diagnosing Dementia Guidance and Standards
This Guidance sets out the process and associated standards for making a diagnosis of dementia in primary health care services, and by specialist memory assessment services.
The Guidance sets out the role of primary care in the initial assessment, diagnosis and long term management of the person with dementia. It takes account of and reflects the need for ongoing advice, support and services for the person with dementia and their carers/families, irrespective of where or when that diagnosis is made.
It sets out the standards essential to making a diagnosis, by a specialist Memory Assessment Service or within primary care.
The Guidance has been produced by a Working Group established by the South West Dementia Partnership. It supplements the South West Dementia Partnership’s Guidance on the Commissioning of Memory Assessment Services (2010).
It is intended as guidance and source of information to inform the commissioning, redesign and delivery of services for people with dementia in primary and secondary care.