A new research article by Elizabeth Peel and Rosie Harding has been published ‘online first’ in Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. ‘“It’s a huge maze, the system, it’s a terrible maze”: Dementia carers’ constructions of navigating health and social care services’ explores data from both the…
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Taking a Holiday from Dementia?
Posted in Care Regulation, and Court of Protection
Keen readers of the dementia project blog will have noticed a rather long break since the last post on the Dementia Project blog. There are various reasons for this, not least that I have been away on holiday. I then moved to take up a new post at the University…
Audit shows reduction in antipsychotic medication prescribed to people with dementia
Posted in Public Policy
This week saw the publication of results from the National Dementia & Antipsychotic Prescribing Audit 2012. The report, available in pdf format covers the period from 2006 to 2011. The report notes a decrease in the numbers and percentage of people with dementia in England receiving a prescription of antipsychotic…
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All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia Report on Early Diagnosis
Posted in Care Regulation, and Public Policy
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia today published their report ‘Unlocking Diagnosis: The key to improving the lives of people with dementia’. The APPG is a cross party group made up of MPs and Peers with an interest in dementia, and chaired by Baroness Sally Greengross. The APPG aims…
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A new report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), published today, highlights medicines management is the area of most concern in the adult social care sector, where over a quarter of providers inspected failed to meet Government standards as at 31 March 2012. The first CQC quarterly “Market Report” publishes…
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