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Quality Compliance Systems (QCS), a company providing policies and toolkits to ensure care sector compliance with regulations, has refreshed and expanded its best practice guidance for supported living services. The content of existing policies has been updated with more inclusive language and new topics have been added such as positive behaviour support and communication. At…
Integrated care systems
Clinical commissioning groups were abolished in July to be replaced by integrated care systems (ICSs), but what are they? Charity Dementia UK seeks to provide answers on a webpage titled: A guide to integrated care systems. ICSs are partnerships between the NHS, local authorities and other local providers and hope to offer joined up services. …
Evaluation of Welsh Dementia Action Plan published
Government Social Research and the Welsh Government has published, ‘Evaluation of the Dementia Action Plan 2018 to 2022: main findings and recommendations for future strategies’. This is the final report in the evaluation process (that began in 2019), and provides an overview of all of the evaluation findings. The report also contains a series of…
BBC runs ‘Memories and Dementia’ season
The BBC has run a season across TV, iPlayer and Radio entitled: ‘Memories and Dementia: Starting the Conversation’. Led by Dr Punam Krishan, ‘Memories and Dementia’ ran from 24-28 March 2025 and drew on the BBC’s content archive through specially curated reminiscence collections aimed at triggering memories and starting conversations. Discover all of the ‘Memories…
The Filo Project celebrates 10 years of helping over 3000 people with dementia
The Filo Project, a local dementia day care non-profit organisation, has celebrated its 10th birthday. The Filo Project is a social enterprise where hosts welcome small groups of older people with early to moderate dementia into their home for the day. Hosts collect clients and bring them into their home for a home-cooked lunch and…
Alzheimer’s Society launch ‘A personal appeal’
The Alzheimer’s Society has launched a new advertising campaign entitled ‘A personal appeal’. The campaign, running across TV, cinema, radio, podcasts and social media, features Rachel – who has recently received a dementia diagnosis – talking about her fears for her future. You can view the advert here: https://youtu.be/K8Q79TXI7QU?si=7oIMYsiWsGh95G1q
