Prime Minister recommends MSNAP

26.3.12

Today, David Cameron pledged to double the budget for research into dementia by 2015.  He issued his Challenge on Dementia, which details key commitments and actions for making dementia a priority in Britain.  The list of actions in this document includes:

• We will ensure that memory clinics are established in all parts of the country, and will work with the Royal College of Psychiatrists to drive up the proportion of memory services that are accredited, through publication of their national Memory Services Accreditation Programme, so that individual organisations can benchmark and report their own performance to drive improvement.

Prof Martin Orrell, Chair of the programme said ‘The Memory Services National Accreditation Programme has become successfully established over the last few years and now has a membership of 52 services. The endorsement from the Prime Minister is a great opportunity to improve the quality of memory services across the country to ensure that people with dementia and their families have rapid access to high quality care’

We at MSNAP are delighted that MSNAP has been given this recognition by the Prime Minister, and we would like to congratulate our members for being the first cohort of memory services to embark on this initiative.

MSNAP National Memory Services Forum 2012 date announced

12.3.12

Following the success of the 2011 Forum, the third MSNAP annual forum will take place on Monday 15th October 2012, at the Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ.  Further details about how to sign up, submitting proposals for presentations, and the speakers and workshops will be released in due course.

To see updates on the conference, visit our 2012 Forum website.

Invitation for Crisis Resolution/Home Treatment Teams to join a new accreditation scheme

28.02.12

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is pleased to announce the launch of a new programme - the Home Treatment Accreditation Scheme (HTAS), which aims to provide a similar kind of service as MSNAP for Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams.  

HTAS is currently recruiting for a pilot phase of the scheme, beginning in late April 2012.  Expressions of interest for taking part are accepted until 23rd March 2012.  The nationwide scheme is anticipated to launch in 2013 and expressions of interest are also accepted for this stage.  More information on what the programme entails, and how to sign up, can be found on the HTAS Website.

Newsletter Issue 5

17.01.12

Download a copy here.

The next edition of the MSNAP newsletter has been released. In this issue we have a new article in our Day in the Life series - a Day in the Life of a Carer, as well as updates and new initiatives from MSNAP and articles about the DeNDRoN and Enabling Environments programmes.
 
If you have anything you would like to write about, or see in the next issue of the MSNAP newsletter, please don't hesitate to contact us.

MSNAP Forum a success

1.12.11

Thank you to everyone who attended the MSNAP National Memory Services Forum on 23rd November 2011.  We had around 120 delegates including 30 speakers, as well as 4 exhibition stands, and we packed out the Manchester Conference Centre. Next year we hope to make the event bigger and better!  We'll be announcing the date and place of the 2012 conference very soon and we hope to see you there.