Why become a peer reviewer?

• Being a peer reviewer gives you the chance to visit other clinics in the UK, and for memory service staff and clinicians this means becoming part of a network where you can share ideas and resources and gives you the opportunity to see how diverse other services work.  Many of our staff and clinician reviewers value the experience, particularly as part of preparation for their own peer review.

• As part of the agreement of joining, member services are required to nominate staff to become peer reviewers.  Bear in mind that your service will receive a visit from at least 2 clinician peer reviewers every 2 years, so you should provide at least 2 reviewers every 2 years in order to keep the programme running fairly and efficiently.

• As a person with dementia or a carer, you will become part of a programme which aims to improve the quality of services that assess and diagnose dementia.  We want to improve the experience of people like you who use these services and as part of that, your views are vital.

Who can become a peer reviewer? 

• People who work in a memory service or memory clinic which is a member of MSNAP.
• People with dementia, or people who care or have cared for someone with dementia, who have experience of using a memory service.

How do I become a peer reviewer?

You will need to be trained in peer reviewing.  Dates of upcoming peer review training days are listed below.  Contact your MSNAP lead, your memory service or the MSNAP Team to register your interest.  If there are no dates listed, we will take your details and contact you as soon as a new date is organised.

• Wednesday 13th June 2012, York

What does the training involve?

• Training to become a peer reviewer takes one day and is free; we hold training days several times a year spread across the country.  See below for details.
• The training day is structured like a peer review day and involves some role play (delivered by the MSNAP team!) to give you an idea of how the peer review visit works, as well as guidance and group exercises.
• Training days are eligible for your CPD programme.
• For people with dementia and their carers, we will book or reimburse travel, as well as paying a session fee of £100/day for training.

When is your next training day?

• Wednesday 13th June 2012, York

To receive details about upcoming training days, please contact the MSNAP team.

How can I find out where and when the visits are?

• Once you are trained you are required to attend at least one peer review, however, you can choose which review(s) you would like to attend.  We rely on volunteers and will not allocate people to reviews they don't want to attend. 
• We will send you email updates every few weeks with new peer review dates; usually these will be several months in advance.
• Depending on distance, sometimes an overnight stay is necessary the night before a review.

What about expenses?

People with dementia and carers

We will pay a service fee of £100 per day to people with dementia and carers who attend our reviews, as well as reimbursement of travel and subsistence (see below).

Travel and accommodation

• The MSNAP team reimburses all reasonable travel and expenses for attending peer reviews, including meals and accommodation for overnight stays.  You must retain all receipts/tickets to support your expense claim, including taxi journeys.
• We will book travel (trains etc.) and accommodation in advance on your behalf wherever possible.  The College is part of the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon emissions and as part of this we encourage you to travel by public transport as much as possible.  
• If you would like us to book travel and/or accommodation for you, a member of the MSNAP team should be notified at least 3 weeks in advance.
• If a ticket is bought by the reviewer on the day, we will only be able to refund the cost up to the price of an advance ticket.
• If you choose to drive, MSNAP will refund petrol costs up to the price of an advance train ticket.

Reimbursement of alcohol

Please be advised that MSNAP will only reimburse you the cost of one alcoholic beverage per day whilst on review. This is to be consumed with your dinner (for which you are permitted to claim a maximum of £25).  Any further alcoholic beverages will be purchased by yourself at your own discretion.