Programme
Tuesday, 23rd February 2010
8:30
Registration and Refreshments
9:30
Opening remarks from Chair
Andrew Chidgey
Head of Policy and Public Affairs
The Alzheimer’s Society
9:40
The National Dementia Strategy – one year on
- Discovering how implementation is taking shape nationally and exploring regional interpretations
- Learning from the demonstration sites and the lessons from service development nationally
- The impact of the recession on implementation and an insight into decisions on funding for future years
- Developing a communication strategy to engage patient groups, health and social care professionals and the third sector
10:00
Question and answer session
10:10
Delivering the dementia strategy in partnership with social care
- Engaging with GPs, Residential Care Homes, Hospitals and mental health services to ensure the dementia strategy is on both the health and social care agenda
- Bridging the differences in health and social care priorities
- Ensuring clarity in reporting structures to deliver integrated care
- Challenging established practice and getting best value from services across community care pathways
- Using JSNA to develop strategic plans for future partnership working
Wendy Balmain
Deputy Regional Director of Social Care and Partnerships
Department of Health
10:30
Question and answer session
10:40
Morning refreshments
11:00
Joint commissioning for dementia services and workforce
- Delivering practical solutions around funding and long-term workforce planning
- Identifying gaps and eliminating duplication in the care pathway: Commissioning to secure local delivery of the full range of services set out in the strategy
- Building quality and dignity into every contracted service with the aim to promote independent functioning
- Reducing the strain on services through innovative collaborative working to achieve positive outcomes
Barbara Stuttle CNE
Director of Quality and Nursing and Deputy Chief Executive
NHS South West Essex
Irene Lewsey
Commissioner for Mental Health
NHS South West Essex
Sarah Carter
Joint Commissioning Officer for Older People
Thurrock Council
11:40
Group Discussion
Discuss with peers and colleagues your local reshaping of services and the effectiveness of your commissioning initiatives. How did these deliver transformational change and value for money?
12:10
Question and answer session
12:20
Lunch
13:20
Personalised care and the realities for dementia sufferers
- Empowering people with dementia and their carers to make decisions about levels of care
- Supporting people in their own home, ensuring they are safe whilst living their own life
- Educating users around intermediate and end of life care
13:40
The NHS and Care Homes: Bridging the Gap
Deborah Sturdy
Nurse Adviser for Older People
Department of Health
14:00
Question and answer session & Chair’s introduction to streamed sessions
Stream A – The challenge of delivering effective dementia care within an acute setting
14:15
Innovative ways to develop the workforce to meet requirements of the strategy
- Equipping all health professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to improve the detection and day-to-day management of people with dementia
- Raising awareness and understanding the rights of patients with dementia and ensuring good quality of care in general hospitals
- Providing specialist mental health assessment and follow-up for older people in general hospitals
Professor June Andrews
Director – Dementia Services Development Centre
University of Stirling
14:45
Question and answer session
15:05
Afternoon refreshments
15:25
Developing an explicit care pathway for the management and care of people with dementia in hospital
- Enhancing the care of people with dementia when admitted to general hospital with a co-existing illness
- Utilising intermediate care teams to pick up assessments following discharge from hospital providing more comprehensive care
- Strategies for achieving efficiency savings through partnership working
Frank Herrity
Liaison Team Manager
Bristol & South Gloucester
Dr Nick John
Consultant in Care of the Elderly
Ben Amor
Liaison Team Manager
Royal United Bath
Tracy Judge
Acute Hospital Social Work Team Manager
Bristol & South Gloucester
16:20
Question and answer session
16:30
Close of Conference
Stream B – Benefiting from specialist dementia services in Primary Care
14:15
Developing a patient pathway for people with dementia: Improving quality of life for people with dementia and their carers
- Developing Memory Clinics as part of the dementia pathway partnership
- Feedback from Memory Clinics and moving to post diagnosis programmes from the service user perspective
- Post diagnosis and beyond from the carers perspective
- The benefits and impact of partnership working in practice involving Community Teams, Admiral Nurses and Third Sector
Anne Matthews
Head of Service Redesign for Older Adults
Ian Oliver
Senior Practitioner Occupational Therapist
Pat Brown
Admiral Nurse Clinical Lead, East Kent Admiral Nursing Service
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
14:45
Question and answer session
15:05
Afternoon refreshments
15:25
Developing dementia advisor services
- Exploring the best ways of reaching out and supporting people living with dementia
- Providing a dedicated, personal service and improving access to information for people with dementia and their carers
- Working closely with GPs, Adult Social Care, Voluntary Sector and Community Mental Health Teams to improve access to care, support and advise
- Increasing information for and support of carers reducing isolation and preventing carer breakdown
Deborah Shepherd
Commissioning and Development Officer
Lincolnshire County Council
15:55
Creating local peer support networks
- The role of PSN in providing patients and their carers locally based practical and emotional support
- Strategies for providing simple and accessible information about dementia and local support services
- Meeting the needs of diverse communities: Employing outreach workers and volunteers from relevant cultural backgrounds
Kathy Caley
Older People Mental Health Commissioner
Brighton and Hove City PCT
Jess Allerton
Project Manager for the Peer Support Demonstrator Site
16:20
Question and answer session
16:30
