[A version of this item appears in: Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 3 Issue 3, October 2012].
Summary
We have just this week learned that the final evaluation of the New Cross Hospital Dementia Project has been published. This report is said to have been presented at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, to a select audience only, sometime during June 2012. There are two volumes to this thorough evaluation.
This evaluation report represents, in many respects, the crowning culmination of the award-winning Dementia Project (2010 – 2012) held at New Cross Hospital with guidance from the Association for Dementia Studies (ADS) at the University of Worcester. The four main sections of the report address the impact of the various interventions making up the “dementia care bundle” on four broad areas:
- Patients and their carers / families.
- Staff.
- Organisational-level culture and performance.
- The wider local health and social care system.
Reference
Upton, D. Krishnan, N. [and] Bray, J. [et al] (2012). Report for New Cross Hospital: an evaluation of quality and cost effectiveness of a newly defined suite of care interventions for patients with dementia and their carers in the acute hospital setting developed by The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust. Report Phase 2 – Volume 1. Worcester: University of Worcester; Institute of Health and Society; Association for Dementia Studies, June 2012 (actual date of creation shown as August 20th 2012).
[A reference to this item features in Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter, Volume 3 Issue 10, September 2013].
Reference
Upton, D. Krishnan, N. [and] Bray, J. [et al] (2012). Report for New Cross Hospital: an evaluation of quality and cost effectiveness of a newly defined suite of care interventions for patients with dementia and their carers in the acute hospital setting developed by The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust. Report Phase 2 – Volume 2. Worcester: University of Worcester; Institute of Health and Society; Association for Dementia Studies, June 2012 (actual date of creation for the internet shown as August 20th 2012).