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Best estimates suggest that the number of UK
residents with dementia stands at 700,000, with 570,000 of these
living in England. Currently, the cost to the UK economy of caring
for people with dementia is £17 billion a year. In the next 30
years, the number of people with dementia is expected to double,
and the associated costs to treble to over £50 billion per
year.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
(NICE)/Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) guideline
Dementia: supporting people
with dementia and their carers in health and social
care offers a clear summary of the immense amount that
can be done to bring quality to the life of people with dementia at
all stages of their illness.
The National Audit Office study:
Improving Services and Support for
People with Dementia revealed not only the
shortcomings in our current systems, but also highlighted the
likelihood that investing in improving the quality of services for
people with dementia would lead not only to enhanced quality of
life, but also to savings in terms of use of acute hospital
services and admission to care homes.
The National Dementia
Strategy, published in February 2009,
will play a central role in ensuring that the needs of people
with dementia become and remain a priority.
The Strategy outlines 17 key objectives which, when
implemented, should result in significant
improvements to the services received by people with dementia.
Memory Services offer timely assessment,
diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitation and support services for
people with memory problems/dementia and their carers within a
multidisciplinary setting. They provide a cost-effective way of
increasing the number of people seen for early diagnosis and
intervention and help to reduce the stigma associated with dementia
and its consequences.
The Royal
College of Psychiatrists Centre for Quality Improvement
(CCQI) has developed a quality
improvement accreditation programme for memory
services. The programme will:
- apply clinical and organisational standards
for the assessment and diagnosis of dementia in a system of self-
and external peer-review;
- support local clinical and service
improvement in line with the network standards;
- produce reports for each service,
highlighting areas of achievement and areas for improvement;
- produce a national report which will allow
services to compare their activity and indicators of quality with
all other services;
- award an accreditation status.
The work is underpinned by a set of
quality standards drawn from relevant policies and
guidelines and advice from partner organisations. The
standards have been revised in line with feedback from the pilot
phase of this programme and the first edition was published in June
2009.
Memory services
across the North-West of England participated in the
Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP NW) funded
pilot and have undergone the processes of self and peer
review. The attendees at the MSNAP feedback event in April
2009 provided input, comments and suggestions on the
standards and all aspects of the review process, which have been
invaluable when revising the standards and refining the methods
employed.
The programme commenced nationwide from June 2009 and we are
excited to begin the accreditation process with our
new members.
Call for participants
The programme runs entirely on subscription
fees from our members. The annual fee for this programme has
been reduced and is now £2400 plus
VAT. If your service is interested in joining MSNAP,
please complete the registration form and return to the MSNAP
Project Team.
Useful documents
Contact details
We are always pleased to hear from people who are interested in
joining the programme or who would like to find out a bit more
about our work. Feel free to contact us on the details below.
Emily Doncaster
Deputy Programme Manager
020 7977 6644
edoncaster@cru.rcpsych.ac.uk
Sophie Hodge
Project Worker
020 7977 4971
shodge@cru.rcpsych.ac.uk