Great britain. department of health

The Essence of Care benchmarks are a tool to help healthcare practitioners take a patient-focused and structured approach to sharing and comparing practice. There are 12 benchmarks in total. This document provides the benchmarks for safety, so that people, their carers, visitors and staff feel safe, secure and supported.

This paper summarises the discussions of 24 leaders from frontline services, academia and policy implementation in England, who came together at a Think Tank event on 7 July 2009. The discussions looked at how to improve community personal support services for people with dementia and their carers. It focused on the challenges, solutions and actions that stakeholder needed to carry out. Annexes include the event programme, notes form the personal testimony from a carer, suggested actions recommended by the Think Tank, and a background paper on personalisation and dementia.

Sets out the role and responsibilities for nurses providing care and support for people with dementia. It updates an earlier strategy published in 2013, and aims to support all nurses to be responsive to the needs of people with dementia, continue to develop their skills and expertise, and achieve the best outcomes for people with dementia, their carers and families. It looks at how nurses can use the Dementia Core Skills Education and Training Framework and outline’s their role within all phases of dementia and area of nursing practice.

In line with the Carers and Disabled Children Act (2000), the DH has commissioned a series of projects to help in developing a comprehensive learning disability strategy. This report presents findings of a study undertaken by the Family Carers sub-group in 2000, involving a literature review and consultations with family carers in England, aimed at highlighting the experiences and perspectives of family carers, especially carers of adults with learning disability.

A carers' assessment under the Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000 is carried out at the request of the carer in order: to determine whether the carer is eligible for support; to determine the support needs of the carer (ie what will help the carer in their caring role; and help them to maintain their own health and well -being).

This document provides guidance on how registered nurses, care and support staff can enable relationship-centred care, and how they can work with others to achieve personalised care and support.

Draws the attention of local authorities to the draft Local Government Special Grant Reports for promoting independence. Also sets out guidance on the conditions (subject to Parliamentary approval and possible changes of a drafting nature) which will be attached to the new grants, and confirms each local authority's allocation for each of the grants for 2000/2001.

Full involvement of individuals and their carers in both assessment and care planning has long been recognised as good practice and the importance of doing so has been highlighted in previous guidance. The Community Care Assessment Directions place existing good practice and guidance on conducting care assessments and care planning into a legal framework.

Audit of the problems that older people experience in accessing health and social care services. Standards proposed include the early intervention and programme of action to address issues of age discrimination. The national service framework for older people is a programme of action linking services to support independence and promote good health, specialised services for key conditions, and culture change so that all older people and their carers are always treated with respect, dignity and fairness.

The Carers in the Region profiles have been commissioned by the Department of Health to provide information about carers at the regional level for each of the 9 English regions. These profiles include data on the number and characteristics of carers in each region as well as information about carer health and well-being. This profile provides information covering the North East region. In 2001 there were 275,813 carers in the North East region, which is 11% of the region’s population.