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UEA gets £2m to help improve dementia care
The study will be hosted by the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where initial research will take place.
David Bale david.bale2@archant.co.uk
Monday, July 22, 2013
7:54 AM
UEA researchers have been awarded a £2m programme grant from the National Institute of Health Research to examine ways to improve hospital care for people with dementia.
One quarter of acute NHS hospital beds are occupied by people with dementia, but inconsistent standards of care, poor physical and mental health management and overuse of sedatives have been highlighted in national reports.
The five-year programme will involve a UK and international team of researchers with the Alzheimer’s Society and Dementia UK as partners. It will be the first dementia-specific study combining elements of best care with a system for putting them into practice.
Programme leader Dr Chris Fox, from UEA’s Norwich Medical School, said: “An injury such as a fractured hip often leads to acute confusion known as delirium and other complications.
“On average, people with a hip fracture in addition to dementia stay in hospital three times longer than those with a hip fracture who do not have dementia.
Making a difference for family carers
Guest Blog –Carol Munt
Travelled to Oxford today for the Thames Valley Mental Health, Dementia and Neurological Conditions Network Development Day.
There were some very good speakers from the voluntary sector in addition to those from the Health sector including Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director.
I’m not sure how I feel about the objectives, I have an uncanny feeling that we’ve heard it all before under another guise.
Patients to inspect hospitals
‘I want a small army’: Hospitals chief inspector urges patients and ex-doctors to join battle to weed out poor care
- Squads with doctors and nurses to probe care at all NHS trusts
- 9 of 11 failing trusts were passed as safe by Care Quality Commission
- Chief inspector Sir Mike Richards: ‘I will not tolerate poor or mediocre care’
- By Sophie Borland and Matt Chorley
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The CQC’s new chief inspector of hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, admitted today the previous CQC inspections had been flawed. He said: ‘We wouldn’t be changing it if it wasn’t.’
Patients, ex-doctors and carers are to be recruited to join a ‘small army’ of hospital inspectors to root-out poor care.
They will form 15-strong squads with doctors and nurses which will carry out thorough investigations of all NHS trusts over the next two years.
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