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As well as presentations and workshops, the You can download presentations, view photos
summit included a 'Dragons In The Summit and watch videos of the Summit at
Den', with a specialist panel considering www.southwestdementiapartnership.org.uk/im
proposals from teams. plementation/summit/
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The National Implementation Plan stresses Objective 4 – enabling easy access to care,
importance of high-quality local action plans in support and advice following diagnosis
implementing the National Dementia Strategy.
Each South West community was asked to Bristol
submit an action plan following an appraisal of
In this project, three dementia advisor posts
their progress in the summer of 2009.
are working alongside two dementia support
officers that are current being piloted in Bristol.
The addition of the three advisor posts allow
We have produced a report designed to for full evaluation of the two different roles and
provide a helpful benchmark for local to understand which has the most benefit or
communities to assess the strength of their whether both have a place within the city. The
existing action plans. Good progress in two support officers are currently working
delivering the National Dementia Strategy within two practice based commissioning
relies on the effective project management of consortia in Bristol. The three advisors will
good action plans. cover the three remaining consortia, to ensure
that every person in Bristol has access to a
named dementia officer.
The report presents the findings of a review of
these action plans and identifies the key
themes for local communities to consider. It For more information contact Emma Bird
begins by examining the overall structure and Emma.bird@bristolpct.nhs.uk
the detail of the plans and then compares
activity by each objective of the National
Dementia Strategy. Somerset
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Cornwall
This project seeks to marry two exciting forces Adverts featuring people with dementia
for change. First, a grass-roots energy that appeared across television, radio, press and
has seen a spontaneous flourishing of online.
community-owned Memory Cafes established
across the county in the last year. Second, a
strategic drive and commitment from Cornwall
Council and the Primary Care Trust to develop
and improve services for people with
dementia and their carers that are individually
tailored to local needs. The project seeks to
capitalise on the relationship between building
sustainable communities and developing
dementia peer-support groups.
Torbay
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Dementia Awareness Week 4-11 July 2010 survey results will be published, along with an
update from the Partnership on the progress
The theme of Dementia Awareness Week this
made in delivering the objectives set by the
year, is Remember the person. Throughout
National Dementia Strategy. The update and
the week, the Alzheimer's Society is
results, along with local case studies will be
encouraging people to look beyond dementia
printed across all the South West newspapers
and understand that everyone living with
owned by Northcliffe Media, including the
dementia is still an individual. A number of
Exeter Express & Echo.
awareness events and fundraising afternoon
teas are planned across the South West.
Website
The Alzheimer's Society has produced a We are continuing to develop the South West
'Remember the person' leaflet which has Dementia Partnership website at
ideas on how to befriend and support people www.southwestdementiapartnership.org.uk to
living with dementia and their families. To keep you up to date with progress in
download copy, or to find out more about implementing the National Dementia Strategy
Dementia Awareness Week visit across the region. If you have information
www.alzheimers.org.uk/remembertheperson about innovative practice, a forthcoming event
or news item of interest then please send it in
to rowan.purdy@swdc.org.uk or call Rowan to
discuss it on 07852175374
“
The South West Dementia Partnership will be
marking the week by publishing the results of We've only got dementia - we're
a survey launched last year to gain a better not stupid and being involved
”
understanding of the needs of people with
dementia and their carers in the region. The
helps us.
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It is recognised that memory assessment Strategy Group and the British Geriatric
services differ widely in their organisation, Society, was held at Exeter Racecource on
funding, staffing and levels of service. They Tuesday 26 January 2010.
are also currently changing and adapting to
meet growing demand.
The conference brought together leads for
improving dementia care in hospitals from
We undertook a baseline survey during May acute and community hospital settings to
to develop a clear picture of current memory consider how to develop and measure an
assessment services and diagnosis rates for effective process of change based on practical
each Primary Care Trust / Local Authority examples from across the South West.
across the South West at the start of 2010/11. Conference delegates also sought to identify
The survey examines planning, access and how to align this agenda with Trusts’ corporate
quality assurance of memory assessment and performance management priorities
services by secondary care providers. across the region.
An analysis of this information has been The conference was chaired by Derek
undertaken and will be reviewed by the Dominey, Chair of the Development
Memory Assessment Expert reference Group Committee, Bristol and South Gloucestershire
on 25 June. Branch of the Alzheimer’s Society. Tarun
Solanki, Consultant Physician, Taunton and
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, provided an
The baseline position provides a very useful introduction to the day before moving onto the
platform on which to build on a regional plenary session, group work and the
approach to specifications, standards and innovative practice workshops.
accreditiation.
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NHS Cornwall is working across agencies and 43 of the patients, moderately improved for 81
involving community pharmacy in reviewing patients and slightly improved for 237. A
care home patients through clinical medication significant amount of prescribing and wastage
reviews. They have produced an interim report was addressed with savings from this
showing the results of reviewing 758 residents amounted to £4 per patient per month.
of care homes jointly by their general
practitioner, a pharmacist and a senior carer An order of prescribing for dementia caee will
responsible for administration in the home. be implemented by the South West Strategic
518 interventions were made for 68% of Health Authority in September 2010
patients. Safety was significantly improved for