The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has published a report entitled ‘Care of Older People 2023-24’. This report is part of the College’s Clinical Quality Improvement Programme which is in its second of three years. Using data from 24,865 patient experiences from 4 October 2023 to 3 October 2024 it shows 12+ hour waits…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a report entitled: ‘Health and social care support for people with dementia’. The report’s findings, which are based on engagement with people living with dementia, unpaid/family carers, professionals and providers (both NHS and social care), as well as analysis of a range of information CQC holds, includes: The…
The Alzheimer’s Society has used Dementia Action Week to highlight symptoms of dementia after finding, through their research, that one in ten people surveyed couldn’t name a common symptom of dementia. The survey of 2,075 UK adults was conducted on behalf of Alzheimer’s Society by Yonder between the 30 April 2025 and 1 May 2025….
The Royal College of Psychiatrists Memory Services National Accreditation Programme (MSNAP) has extended the deadline for entries to their artwork competition. The competition is for people living with dementia and unpaid/family carers/care partners. Artwork will be featured in upcoming MSNAP publications. You can download the form to accompany artwork (which also details the email address…
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has rejected new Alzheimer’s drug, donanemab, for use in the NHS in Scotland. This aligns with the view of NICE (which we covered here https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/nice-publish-further-draft-guidance-on-lecanemab-and-donanemab) when considering donanemab (and lecanemab) for use in the NHS in England and Wales. The reasons given by the SMC are similar to NICE. Anyone…
The Palliative and End-of-Life Care Commission has published its first report, entitled ‘Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care – Opportunities for England (Volume 1)’. The report finds that access to high-quality palliative care is unevenly provided across the UK, and makes the case that everyone who has palliative care needs should be able to access well-resourced…
‘Unlocking the Power of Proactive and Preventative Care Services – A practical blueprint for planning, implementing and scaling up’ has been published by a new national Commission led by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and the TEC Services Association (TSA). The Commission engaged with 50+ social care leaders from local authorities…
Dementia UK has published their programme for their 2025 Summer School. Running from 1-4 July 2025, the Summer School is a free annual event aimed at improving practice in and knowledge of dementia care. Topics being covered in 2025 are diverse and include managing and assessing pain, young onset dementia, technology to support families and…
V for Life, the UK charity working on behalf of older vegetarians and vegans, has used Dementia Action Week to highlight their Self-Advocacy Pack. The Self-Advocacy Pack has been designed to help vegetarians and vegans safeguard their diet and beliefs if they need to draw on care services. V for Life say: “Around 70 per…
A new website – Dementia Journeys – has been launched to explore what better end-of-life dementia care looks like based on research. Central to the website are stories from carers that were originally shared during an exhibition that ran at the Science Gallery, London from April-June 2024. The exhibition was created in response to Empowering…