1. Dementia 3 & Meds Management Target Mini Collaborative
26th March 2013
Dementia 3 & Meds Management Target Mini Collaborative
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2. National Dementia Vision for Wales (2011)
“The Welsh Assembly Government has made a commitment to make immediate improvements to dementia services in Wales by taking forward the priority actions that have been identified and delivering the following commitments”

3. Welsh Gov Strategy

4. How to Guide

5. Dementia Target & sites
1) Making and sharing the diagnosis
reduce time between onset of symptoms & diagnosis being communicated
2) Dementia in the general hospital
Improved quality of general hospital care for people with dementia and reduced length of stay
3) Use of anti-psychotics
Reduced inappropriate use of anti-psychotic medications in accordance with NICE/SCIE guidelines.
4) Support for care-givers
Improved support for care givers
5) NHS in-patient care (mental health units)
Improved quality of care

6. Model for Improvement

7. Repeated use of the PDSA Cycle
Changes that result in improvement A P S D
DATA D S P A
Implementation of change A P S D
Hunches, theories, best practices
Wide-scale tests of change A P S D
Once a process functions reliably 90% of the time or better, it is reasonable to pursue improvement in the next PDSA cycle
Follow-up tests
Sequential building of knowledge under a wide range of conditions
Very small scale test (but with HUGE potential!!!)
1000 Lives Plus 7

8. Collaborative Improvement Model
Repeated improvement cycles: planning → testing → evaluation → sharing → implementing
Repeated improvement cycles: planning → testing → evaluation → sharing → implementing
Repeated improvement cycles: planning → testing → evaluation → sharing → implementing
Learning session 1
Learning session 2
Learning session 3
Planning
Support systems
1000 lives support team
Interactive learning sessions
Inter-clinic communication (e.g. monthly meetings)
Continuous feedback (sharing data)

9. leslie.rudd@wales.nhs.uk 078 666 79064
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