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Category Archives: National Audit Office
Hip Fractures and Dementia (Department of Health, Dementia)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 10, May 2012]. Summary In this Department of Health video web blog posting, Professor Alistair Burns (National Clinical Dementia Director, Department of Health) discusses … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Delirium, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), National, National Audit Office, NHS, Physiotherapy, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Epidemiology, Fragility Hip Fractures, Hip Fractures, National Audit Office (NAO), Professor Alistair Burns
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People Likely to Develop Alzheimer’s Disease are Potentially Identifiable Ten Years Earlier (Department of Health, Dementia)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 7, February 2012]. Summary People at risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) could be pre-diagnosed ten years before the disease becomes manifest, according to a … Continue reading
Posted in Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, National Audit Office, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
Tagged Alzheimer’s Early Screening, Amyloid Beta, Amyloid Beta Protein, Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF), Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Biomarkers, CSF, CSF Aβ, CSF Tau, Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease, Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, Early Screening, β-Amyloid 1-42 (Aβ42), MCI, MCI: Mild Cognitive Impairment, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Neuropsychiatric Clinic: Skåne University Hospital (Malmö: Sweden), Phosphorylated Tau (P-tau), Skåne University Hospital (Malmö: Sweden), Tau Protein, Test to Detect Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease, Total Tau (T-tau)
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Care Quality Commission: Regulating the Quality and Safety of Health and Adult Social Care (National Audit Office)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 5, December 2011]. Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was formed in 2009 by taking over three previous regulators, namely the Healthcare Commission, the … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, National Audit Office, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Care Quality Commission, Commission for Social Care Inspection, Dignity and Nutrition Inspection Programme (CQC), Health and Social Care, Healthcare Commission, Mental Health Act Commission, National Audit Office (NAO), Social Care, Whistleblowing
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Economic Evaluation of a Liaison Psychiatry Service
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 5, December 2011]. Summary This report offers an independent economic evaluation of the Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID) psychiatric liaison service operating at … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Delirium, For Social Workers (mostly), Local Interest, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Birmingham City Hospital, Centre for Mental Health, City Hospital (Birmingham UK), Hospital Discharge, Liaison Psychiatry Services, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Mental Health Liaison Services, Mental Health Liaison Services for Dementia Care in Hospitals, Mental Health Network (NHS Confederation), National Audit Office (NAO), NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network, Psychiatric Liaison Services, Psychiatric Liaison Team, RAID, Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID)
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Establishment of Memory Services: Provisional Results of a Survey of PCTs, 2011 (NHS Information Centre)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 1, August 2011]. Summary This report presents initial provisional results of a voluntary survey of the PCTs and Care Trusts which commission memory assessment … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, Department of Health, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, National, National Audit Office, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Establishment of Memory Services: National Survey / Audit, Memory Assessment Services, Memory Clinics, Memory Services, National Audit of Dementia Services
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Provision of Memory Services (National Audit of Dementia Services)
Summary Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, has written a follow-up letter about the data collection exercise, now underway, concerning the establishment of memory services. This initiative is part of the National Audit of Dementia Services being undertaken by the NHS Information Centre … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, Department of Health, For Social Workers (mostly), National, National Audit Office, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Department of Health, Establishment of Memory Services: National Survey / Audit, Memory Services, National Audit of Dementia Care, National Audit Office (NAO), National Clinical Director for Dementia, NHS Information Centre, Professor Alistair Burns
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Establishment of Memory Services (National Audit of Dementia Services)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 1 Issue 10, May 2011]. Summary Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, has written a letter notifying PCT Medical Directors of the proposed data collection … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, National Audit Office, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
Tagged Department of Health, Memory Services, National Audit of Dementia Services, National Clinical Director for Dementia, NHS Information Centre, PCT Chief Executives, PCT Medical Directors, Professor Alistair Burns, SHA Chief Executives, SHA Directors of Finance, SHA Medical Directors
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Survey of London Doctors: a Warning About NHS Dementia Demand (ippr)
Abstract Research by the think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) indicates that about one third of GPs are unable to diagnose dementia or to provide sufficient help for sufferers. Editor’s Note: Are GPs aware of the free online training available? Officially, … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, Department of Health, For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, National Audit Office, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
Tagged Andrew Lansley (Health Secretary), City of London Corporation, Department of Health, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), ippr: Institute for Public Policy Research, Liberal Democrat Health Minister Paul Burstow, National Audit Office (NAO), Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat Health Minister)
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Improving Dementia Services in England: an Interim Report
Abstract [This abstract first appeared in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter RWHT Issue 1 August 2010]. This report evaluates progress towards adoption of the Department of Health’s dementia strategy “Living well with dementia”. It concludes there has not yet been a … Continue reading
