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Specialist care provider Dimensions is stepping up its facility de-registration programme with the appointment of a director of service development who will take a lead on the project.

A new integrated dementia service, run by a consortium of 162 GPs across 41 practices in Staffordshire, has landed the top award in the NHS Innovation Challenge Prize for Dementia. The prize, run in collaboration with Janssen Healthcare Innovation, was set up this year to identify and reward innovative approaches for dementia, one of the biggest problems the NHS and UK society face today. The Dementia Challenge is part of the wider NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes programme and also the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge.

NHS England has promised the biggest transformation of mental healthcare in a generation. Responding to the final report of the independent mental health taskforce, set up by the NHS as part of its Five Year Forward View, it has pledged to invest an additional £1bn a year in mental health services by 2020/21, enabling a million more people to access services.

Having diabetes can increase the risk of developing dementia by 50%, according to a new report commissioned by Alzheimer’sDisease International (ADI).

Community Care Market News (News) August 2001 The Department of Health has published a consultation on the scale of fees to be...

Adult social care services are struggling to care for people with dementia, according to government inspectors. The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) Care Update report has found that care home residents with dementia are more likely to go to hospital with avoidable conditions such as urinary infections, than similar people without dementia. Furthermore, the watchdog found that once in hospital, they are more likely to stay longer, be readmitted, and die there than similar people who do not have dementia.

The residential care capacity in the specialist care sector is on a slowly declining trend as councils opt for supported living wherever possible, LaingBuisson chief executive William Laing told delegates at the Social Care Forum: Younger Adults last month. He said: The care homes are viewed by many as, if not a burning platform, a slowly melting one, as, so people say, the future lies with supported living as so far as that is possible and so far as that comes on stream.’

Community Care Market News (News) November 2004 The total number of patients experiencing delayed discharge from hospitals in Wales was 785 on...

Domiciliary care provider City & County Healthcare Group, currently listed as the tenth largest provider in the UK, has boosted its presence with the acquisition of Careline Homecare for an undisclosed sum.

Independent mental healthcare providers should have been inspected under the new Care Quality Commission (CQC) regime by October 2015, according to chief inspector of hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards.