By Lowri Morgan, Dementia Programme Manager, Cwm Taf Morgannwg Regional Partnership To mark Dementia Action Week (19-25 May), we’re sharing a series of blogs written by members of our dementia team and NHS colleagues who lead work to improve dementia care in regions across Wales. View our dementia pages to
Continue readingBy Michaela Morris, National Mental Health Services Improvement Manager and Dementia Lead The end of March is a time where many of us in the NHS reflect and report on activity over the past year. It’s clear that significant strides have been made in dementia care across Wales. From groundbreaking
Continue readingBy Ian Dovaston, Senior Improvement Manager I thought that this blog should focus on Improvement Cymru’s visit to North Wales at the end of October. This three-day excursion was to really get to grips and understand how the All Wales Dementia Care Pathway of Standards is being put into action
Continue readingBy Nigel Hullah, Chair of Three Nations Dementia Working Group and Dementia Advocate In October, Nigel Hullah, Chair of Three Nations Dementia and dementia advocate, attended the Alzheimer Europe Annual Conference in Geneva. In Nigel’s own words, he discusses the importance of collaboration between organisations and listening to those with lived
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By Ian Dovaston, Senior Improvement Manager, Improvement Cymru This year’s Health Service Journal (HSJ) Patient Safety Congress and Awards take place in Manchester next week and Improvement Cymru has won three of the 10 categories in the poster competition. We are delighted to have won the category of ‘The patient voice’.
Continue readingBy Andrea Gray Mental Health Development Lead for Wales, Improvement Cymru Close working arrangements have often existed at a national leadership level in mental health, this has frequently been because of personal relationships that have grown and developed over time as well as a genuine commitment to wanting to support
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